Posted on 11/22/2019 4:06:53 PM PST by cba123
South Korea’s decision, days after the Trump administration broke off talks over the cost of American troops there, suggested it wanted to halt worsening of relations with Japan and the United States.
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It’s their neighborhood
I was over there as a liaison officer for “good stuff” both the Koreans and Japanese needed. Trump is doing good things, we hold the cards.
Probably had a lot to do with our recent ‘walking out’ of a conference with them.
The Bible says some things take 7 generations to overcome, because they are so awful.
Japan is suffering from that in Asia.
Bless our Founders for putting domestic limits upon our foreign policy.
South Korea better be looking for ‘help’ in the region...
They may be independently rich now BUT are they able to absorb North Korea if and when the ‘merge’ happens?
Remember what happened to Germany when they absorbed East Germany.
Think EU and Germany ‘suckering’ the rest of Europe into finance East Germany and the onslaught of Arabs invading them.
No wonder EU ‘hates’ PDJT, For once somebody is standing up and saying Pay your fair share and about the first time ANY Nato country negotiated with Russia should have been when we started pulling out.
Nato is there to ‘protect’ Europe from USSR & ‘bloc’ but
Since there is no longer a ‘Soviet Union’ maybe WE should pull out of NATO..
[South Korea better be looking for ‘help’ in the region...
They may be independently rich now BUT are they able to absorb North Korea if and when the ‘merge’ happens?]
For the Koreans, the Russians (and before them, the Manchurians, and so on) and the Chinese have balanced each other off, which is how the Korean state retained what independence it had. Now that the Chinese economy is 10x the size of its Russian counterpart, Korea’s primary lifeline is the US. If the US leaves, then it will have to be Japan. But the Koreans are so invested in the narrative that the Japanese are the worst neighbors ever, that they might end up being absorbed by China. It’s like the guy driving on the highway who’s so focused on watching the side of the road for wildlife running into traffic (i.e. Japan) that he veers across the center line into the path of an oncoming semi (i.e. China).
I didn’t know about this, but I predicted it when I first read about the $5 billion demand.
China knows South Korea would be a much more important ally than is North Korea. To totally split off South Korea from the U.S. and Japan would be a real, massive, coup for China.
If that happens, who will we thank?
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