New Book Claims that Donald Trump Wanted to Pull All Troops Out of South Korea
This claim has long been hinted by Trump himself due to the cost sharing issue with South Korea. Trump wanted the ROK to pay more for USFK which the Moon administration declined to do. The media now is trying to sell this as a new story when it is actually an old one:
Mark Esper, the former secretary of Defense under President Trump, says that the former president proposed a number of “outlandish” foreign policy proposals while he was in the White House, including pulling troops out of South Korea and shutting down embassies in Africa, according to an excerpt from Esper’s upcoming memoir.
In a new excerpt, shared by Politico, Esper wrote that shortly after he was hired to be the new Pentagon chief in 2019, Trump was railing against NATO and corruption in Ukraine, two personal issues that the rest of the national security and foreign policy team tried to tamp down because they weren’t considered leading concerns at the time.
Trump also said he wanted a “complete withdrawal” of forces from South Korea and that he wished to “bring our people home” from embassies in Africa, according to Esper.
The Hill
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Well too bad Trump wasn’t reelected. If he had won the election, the US military would have been out of South Korea and both Koreas would have accepted North Korea’s nuclear weapons as just a reality. That would have led to South and North Korea negotiating the peace, including the ending of the Korean War.
Should pull at least all ground forces out of Korea, no need for them here. And while we are at it cut them off from the daddy warbucks money. Korea has been getting over on the cheap for far to long.
Should pull at least all ground forces out of Korea,
USFK presence here in Koea is minimal at best, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are plans for further reduction of permament forces.
Why do the WAR™ crowd insist that they are extending Korea a big courtesy, when for decades when have worked hard on reducing the US military footprint in Korea?
Elon Musk has deftly ended Trump’s dream to make billions from Trump-Social … or whatever it’s called.
The Trumplings will abandon Trump-Social and re-enrol on Twitter to welcome back Trump.
Well played Mr. Musk.
Just more proof of what everyone already knew…the former guy wasn’t fit to run a carnival, much less a country.
Keep buying that expensive gas, watching you food prices go up by double digits, and sending billions to Ukraine so they can lose or sell the weapons to the people who are going to be taking out armored limousines and shooting down commercial airliners for the next decade.
Meanwhile, you drive over the same pothole every day on your way to a thankless job.
Think I’ll start hoarding baby formula. I don’t have a baby but it seems like a good investment opportunity. Better since I don’t have a baby of course. When was the last time the US rationed out baby formula?
“You’ll have nothing and like it!”
Looks like they are working on that first bit before the second.
The French funded our war back in the day when their people were starving. It didn’t work out well for the reigning parties.