The Joshua Ramos Freeze Deal Strategy
Here is yet another example of a freeze deal being circulated around Washington, D.C.
My first question is what would the US give up to get North Korea to freeze their nuclear weapons for 26 months? They are not going to freeze their nuclear weapons program out of the goodness of their hearts. Additionally this does nothing to solve the ICBM issue which is actually more concerning than the nuclear program right now. Their nuclear weapons cannot be used against the US homeland if they don’t have a reliable delivery system.
This “freeze-for-freeze” thing is coming straight from the Chinese (with Russian support). The deal calls for a halt of Alliance exercises (mainly UFG and Key Resolve) and a pullout of THAAD – in exchange for a freeze of North Korea’s ballistic missiles and nukes development.
I’ve actually heard a few folks at USFK privately opine that the Alliance could halt UFG and KR for a few years and it wouldn’t lead to much of a drop off in readiness because we’ve conducted these exercises for so many years in a row now.
ChickenHead Plan (short version)
– openly state America will not be subject to nuclear blackmail… a non-negotiable position… no more talk
– openly state another nuke test or missile launch will be met with a crippling military response against all involved targets and many related targets… this is the way it is… respond as you see fit
– openly state KJU will become a target even if he is a puppet… whoever takes over will find it harder to control the population and keep up the good life without a cult figurehead
– openly state any attack on America of any sort will be met with a civilization-ending response… nuclear threats push the situation into a different response bracket
– openly state America First means concern about NK response will only be about how it affects America… but any revenge attack on allies (e.g. the proverbial shelling of Seoul) will be met with a civilization-ending response
– openly state that America First means whining from South Korea who did nothing but finance all this for 67 years is meaningless… China can support it or find a new market to sell to and deal with internal unrest brought about by a sudden economic drop…. Russia can continue to ignore the situation as they mostly have been… Japan can stay out of voicing opinions as well but they are welcome to buy more defense equipment
Concessions:
– Any collapse of NK must be physically managed only by South Korea
– America will not send military above the current DMZ in a unified Korea (but may keep current bases)
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How pollyanish
“I’ve actually heard a few folks at USFK privately opine that the Alliance could halt UFG and KR for a few years and it wouldn’t lead to much of a drop off in readiness because we’ve conducted these exercises for so many years in a row now.”
With USFK’s two and a half year institutional memory… which can be graphed by Town Patrol’s cycle of fascism and emasculation, Good Idea Fairies alternating between repeating sets of failed policies, or biannual busts of Supply-Negroes-Selling-Gortex-Downtown and Post-Office-Negroes-Pilfering-Credit-Cards-and-Electronics… one would think an exercise at least every year is COMPLETELY necessary.
What’s up, Guitard? USFK not paying enough and you have to take a side job with North Korea to cover drug, gambling, and kiddy pr0n debts?
Question: In the past, the post office and supply on Osan had situations as I described. I realize it is not politically correct to point this out. Has anything changed in the last decade? Kindly correct me if this no longer applies.
Here we go again, in short. “Concessions” will turn out to be money, mostly, which NK will then turn around and plough back into nuclear and missile programs, while reneging on their commitments as soon as possible. I know people say that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, but this particular past only goes back to 1994, so it seems to be the case that the Moon government, and a good number of US State Department types, can’t even remember a past that is that close in time. Bizarre.
@ChickenHead: I was only passing on something I heard others saying to indicate there are actually people in USFK that might fall for this idea. Personally, I love the annual exercises. As for how necessary they are … from an Alliance standpoint – they are absolutely necessary; especially since Moon is pushing for the ROKs to take OPCON.
” I was only passing on something I heard others saying to indicate there are actually people in USFK that might fall for this idea.”
Ha! I was just testing. Glad to see you have gotten on the program and jumped on the team to come on in for the big win.
So where do we report these traitorous commie fifth columnists?