Tweet of the Day: Prelude to Shredding of US-ROK Alliance?
It's out of the news cycle & off most people's radar screens at the moment. But the failure to conclude the U.S.-ROK Special Measures Agreement (SMA) negotiations is an opportunity for Trump to drop another chaos bomb & shred the U.S.-ROK alliance. Don't say I didn't warn you.
— Daniel Pinkston (@dpinkston) December 21, 2018
It is all happening as I foretold.
South Koreans are going to get two scoops of what they voted for…
And they can only blame themselves when commie tanks roll into Seoul, Inchon, Taegu, Pohang, and Pusan.
Trump won’t be there to kick around after Moon makes it clear USFK is unwelcome.
Maybe they can ask China for help. I am sure they’re willing to send troops again.
Operation Fatty Confederacy is almost complete.
Without General Mattis holding a steady hand as SecDef, I am now fearful for my brothers and sisters on the peninsula. If there was a plan for evacuating the military and their dependents it is no longer useful. Vietnam in 1975 is going to look like a picnic.
Doc, Doc, Doc…
There are things at work here that none of us see. The stuff we do see is a tale carefully-crafted by the NeverTrump media. If Trump dumping NAFTA, TPP, Paris, Net Neutrality, and so on didn’t kill us, choosing a SecDef with a less warlike public image won’t kill us either.
Unless Trump chooses a Code Pink activist, I would advise calm. For all we know, the next SecDef could be the real-life equivalent of Bruce Lee+Chuck Norris…
We survived Perry, Gates, and Panetta fer goodness sakes…
Here’s one of the first things a new SecDef might be ordered to do:
Getting out of Syria, makes sense, we just have to guarantee arming the Kurds.
In the last 17 years military deployments have become a raison d`etre in themselves.
Mattis is a warhawk he can’t ween the Infantry off the teet of self agrandizement.
Just look at what it has become, Officers and NCO’s deploy, get a Combat Patch, Medals, and good compensation. Minimum risk to themselves.
Then they go on to early retirement and guaranteed high compensation from VA.
Who, wants to rock the boat and stop that?
Ike warned about the military Industrial Complex. Now tell me how many wars have the Infantry won for us lately?
The friction escalated in January when “Trump ordered Mattis to end the practice of allowing the family members of U.S. troops stationed in South Korea to accompany them during their deployments.”
This was one of the moves Trump wanted North Korea to observe so they would know, unlike past presidents, he was serious about initiating and winning conflict on the peninsula if they didn’t cooperate.
No dependents is a clear sign USFK means business… for real this time.
But the entrenched bureaucracy/status quo profiteers/agents of the military-industrial complex/Deep State/whatever you want to call it, don’t like change… at least change that leads to conflict-reducing victory which saps power and reduces budgets.
When there is a school full of dependents merrily going on well within the CEP of a North Korean attack, NK starts to get an attitude of “O.K., if you aren’t going to take this seriously, why should we?”
And that is what those who thrive on perpetual conflict rather than American victory want.
CH for the win.
As usual CH and frends can’t see the “Big Picture” only life on the Pen.
Tanker,
Yes. There are bigger pictures… perpetual pretend conflict with North Korea to keep a military presence as close to China as possible, for example.
But that little charade can keep going AND North Korea can stop upsetting the balance of things with nukes, delivery systems, and constant smack talking…
…which Trump has stopped for as well as can be expected without giving out payoffs that former presidents have given for nothing in return.
Keeping a presence in Korea, for as cheaply as possible, is probably a good thing…
…but part of the return on that investment should be a fully contained North Korea rather than one sending nuke-capable missiles over Japan.
It seems as though all goals are being met.
So what is you plan, Tanker? Do you prefer war, withdrawal, or continued expensive lollygagging with no clear result?
CH, Status Quo, IMO. Too many actors we can’t control.
Tanker, most of us are better off merely trying to control ourselves and trying to be “light and salt” to those around us.
I often fail at that because cynicism and sarcasm are addictive.