As a generality, Okinawa usually functions in leftist opposition to the Japanese mainland majority and uses protest to just about anything the Japanese government does in the national defense sphere as a reason to organize demonstrations and protests. This behavior generally leads to some concession from the central government to pacify the Okinawans, which, in turn enriches at least some Okinawans; this enrichment, in turn, keeps the opposition in political power in Okinawa while, paradoxically, an extraordinary concentration of U.S. military enjoys an excellent strategic position on the good old USS Okinawa. Contingency plans to abandon Okinawa are know to exist, and the Okinawans would not go so far in upsetting the status quo as to trigger large scale American departure, for should that occur, Okinawa would be impoverished and irrelevant.