Posted on 04/03/2016 4:14:54 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Donald Trump on Saturday told a crowd of thousands he was sanguine about potential hostilities between North Korea and its neighbors.
Speaking at a rally in Rothschild, Wisconsin ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday, the Republican Donald Trump on Saturday told a crowd of thousands he was sanguine about potential hostilities between North Korea and its neighbors.
Speaking at a rally in Rothschild, Wisconsin ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday, the Republican presidential frontrunner said that if conflict between Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea were to break out, “it would be a terrible thing but if they do, they do” the Republican presidential frontrunner said that if conflict between Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea were to break out, “it would be a terrible thing but if they do, they do”.
Good luck,” he added. “Enjoy yourself, folks.” .....
How do you address the current treaty?
Does Trump see Japan and N Korea as moral equivalents?
“Does Trump see Japan and N Korea as moral equivalents?”
They’re the same height!
Oh great, big words. How about I splain it to you plain. NK is run by an obese little jerk megalomaniac narcissist. Japan is a functioning democracy.
Your FR account is run by a self righteous jackass.
Morally equivalent enough for you?
"It really is dumbfounding to hear such know-nothingness. In the past such comments would be exclusive to the fringe left."
Borish twit. Arrogant tosser.
I question your Freeper credentials.
I ‘m telling you folks, the guy is waaaaaaaay under qualified to be commander in chief of the last existing superpower left in the world.
“I’m just curious. Did you actually listen to the speech or are you just relying on the newspaper account of his speech?”
I am referring to the “if they do, they do” and “enjoy yourself, folks”.
Please point out anything that puts these comments in a different context than their face value.
I’d say the US has done the world quite enough favors that it can get up on its own two feet and walk now.
It was a secondary effect of American gospel belief.
Ironically there may soon be a larger proportion of sincere gospel belief in China than there is in America... just because you visit a church each week doesn’t make it more than a club to you. The holy fire flits fitfully over the world, as people choose whether or not to be fuel for it.
Not saying that America can’t change. Its own history ought to be a witness to itself. That here’s what God can do, and here’s what happens when we walk off from God. God is the same. Will we change again?
I question yours, Ash.
North Korea gets help from China, and China is a force to be reckoned with.
You can always go over there and soak up a bullet, if you feel that strongly about the situation.
Kind of Donald’s April Glaspie moment.
insert name here aka The "Newashman" aka ASH aka ReduxAsh aka at least five other screen names is a hoaxer who has been banned from posting to this forum. Not once, but many times. He will be banned again soon.
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Please DO NOT respond in any way to him.
It doesn’t matter, he says what angry Americans want to hear right now.
In the past Freepers knew whom to support, whom not to. We Freeped together Jiang Zemin, for example. There were no Freeps against Japanese PM’s.
The Clinton Chinagate dossier put together by fantastic women like Alamo-girl, Jolly and others was within the context of aninformed and knowledgeable position and context.
The idea of reneging on Treaties with Allies would not have come up.
Exactly.
I have long thought that Japan should be allowed to re-emerge as a military presence. Not only for her own self-defense, but also as a valid and strong deterrent against communist Chinese and North Korean aggression.
He’s brash even by American standards, yes.
It is ham-handed, particularly as would strike the Japanese. Neither of us need contemplate that for so much as one second.
But come on, do you think Japan will really, really go and take regional security seriously as long as there is no perception of PRACTICAL NEED..?
It was a recent sea-change in Japanese defensive thinking, simply to permit a MSDF Aegis to defend an American ship in the same allied fleet.
How much more pressure would be required for, say, a Japanese infantry deployment for ANY purpose to South Korea...?
Without both sides staring into the void, I’d say that’s inconceivable.
And it seems that Trump is pushing their head into that void, the better to contemplate it.
THEY NEED TO PUT ASIAN REGIONAL SECURITY ON FAST-FORWARD. In fact they needed that 10 years ago.
China is probably not blind, however, to where particular moves can take it.
With a Trump on the horizon who seems hostile if not indifferent to Chinese trade, China could be facing a much leaner cash cow if it foments trouble for trouble’s sake. It may be forced to see on what side its blessing bread has been buttered.
I don’t think Trump would renege either, though he might strongly encourage a larger independence in the future, i.e. a renegotiation of things.
Whatever happened to Don Morgan?
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