South Korea can handle anything North Korea can throw at them and China isn’t going to allow them to use a nuke against South Korea. In fact I suspect China would crush any further NK research into nukes if we weren’t there.
Its not like we can’t project power if South Korea needs us.
“South Korea can handle anything North Korea can throw at them”
There is a small scale version of Mutually Assured Destruction in Korea. Both sides have tens of thousands of rockets pointed at each other. If anything touches off, it will be a matter of minutes before total devastation.
One of the smarter things Rumsfeld did is quietly reduce our troop strength there...the theory being troops in the cannon fodder zone are useless, compared to troops a thousand miles away, that could at least get there after the first volley.
But, we can’t protect the border unless there are at least some ‘boots on the ground’. Why do we stay? International credibility. Same reason we’ve still got troops in Germany.
It also has the residual efect of giving us a large military footprint in the region, and we could project force from there if necessary closeby (Taiwan comes to mind).
“South Korea can handle anything North Korea can throw at them”
One quarter of South Korea’s population is in Seoul, which North Korea is capable of flattening in a mere half hour. Rethink your statement.
SK can’t handle the PRC
New world order, i.e., international banking, is the backer of world communism.
NWO strategy alternates war and peace, making gains for totalitarianism during each phase.
During peacetime, the idea is to set up for major war and have localized wars. In America, NWO uses “hawks” to drive up defense spending and export arms as much as possible (NWO benefits from gov’t spending and the large, ready militaries make it much easier for NWO to precipitate conflict). Doves, on the other hand, are used to promote the idea of simply handing over territory to totalitarian states, avoid war at all costs, avoid foreign entanglements, etc. Basically, give territory back that was hard-won with much blood and treasure. For example, the outcome of WWII saw all of NWO’s goals being realized.
New world order has carefully nursed along the idea that totalitarian superpowers either “collapsed”, as in the case of Russia, or “are our friends” in the case of China.
While American, and really all, freedom does have an enemy in communism and all collectivist thinking, it also has an enemy in new world order, an enemy that has had its way with us - and the rest of the world - for a hundred years. Without vanquishing new world order, the US, and every other country, is constantly facing manipulations that endeavor to ultimately reduce free people to economic slaves.