I don’t usually agree with Buchanan but he’s right on SK. They’ve enjoyed our defense umbrella and mostly ignored their own. Like Japan, SK wants the American footprint reduced to a postage stamp. They can’t have it both ways.
After WWII, America, under the influence of new world order, gave away the store to communism. Part of the effect of that was the Korean War.
Pat’s statements are just more giving away of the store to communist China, the new world order’s darling subsidiary.
If you read up on “eastern establishment”, new world order, etc., (Shadows of Power by Perloff is a place to start), you’ll begin to see the magnitude of the enemy that we actually face, what they’re up to and how real the possibility is that they win and we lose.
What are you talking about? South Korea has one of the most powerful ground forces in the world. They have a fairly well equipped army of some 500,000 men, with reserves of another 3-million. To put that in perspective, the US Army has 560,000 men, and reserves of another 560,000. Keep in mind, South Korea has only 1/6th the population of the US. In terms of military expenditures as a percentage of GDP, they’re the fourth largest military budgeted nation on Earth. South Korea is not some unmilitarized country by any reasonable measure.