Posted on 02/22/2016 6:06:34 AM PST by C19fan
The joint US-South Korean exercises scheduled for March will be largest military drills ever staged on the Korean Peninsula and are both a warning to Pyongyang and an effort to reassure the jittery public in the South. The parallel Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises are scheduled to commence on March 7, with the field-training exercises that make up Foal Eagle lasting until April 30. The drills will involve 15,000 US troops, twice the number of previous years, and will serve to demonstrate Washington's firepower.
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This is the wrong president to engage in sabre rattling. I can only see him throwing it down when threatened and running back to lead from behind...far behind.
Unless times have changed, 300,000 ROKs is something no one wants to mess with.
They should do it alone as nobody respects nor fears obama!
Plus, he just might precipitate a crisis that would “require” him to extend his term in office.
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