nein51 said:
KaiBear said:
nein51 said:
KaiBear said:
boognish_bear said:
NATO should have been disbanded 30 years ago.
US troops should have been removed from South Korea 20 years ago.
US strategic interests should be focused on central and South America.
There are 0 military threats to our South. We could take all of South and Central America in a matter of days.
South Korea/Japan act as a check on China/Russia.
Respectfully disagree.
The single biggest threat to the people of United States are the drug cartels in Columbia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua and especially……MEXICO.
If Europe and South Korea cannot defend themselves after over SEVENTY years of US aid and protection…..that is their problem .
Those are not military threats and, with all due respect, if drug addicts can't stop themselves after 70 years of warnings that is their problem.
But seriously none of those countries have the ability to start a world war. China does.
The minute you leave South Korea and Japan China will take Taiwan regardless of the costs to them (which would be insanely high and incredibly difficult).
Our main disagreement is probably the mission of military. Stopping the inflow of drugs is not a military problem to me. It's a problem for the alphabet agencies.
Agreed. The 'drug war' is a screen for an ongoing proxy war.
China's expansion plans actually date back to the fall of the Soviet Union. People forget that Moscow and Beijing at one time looked at each other as chief principal opponents, and both worked with the US against each other (
while trying to steal American tech and build spy networks in the US).
Clinton, Bush II, and Obama did nothing to really address China's growth into the Southeast Asia region, despite protests from pretty much everyone in the area. During his first term Trump focused on trade with China, but not much on the military threat. He's addressed that more in the new term, but has held off from specifics, I believe at the request of the JC's.
China expanded its logistics chain to include Venezuela, in order to fuel its oil-hungry navy and gain economic leverage over other South-Hemisphere countries. Taking out Maduro, therefore, was an effective way to seriously damage China's expansion in addition to sending a message to Beijing that avoids direct military conflict between USN and PLAN forces.
That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier