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    Trump has the knowledge base of a home schooled toddler with an undiagnosed learning disability

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    Of course he does, there’s not a single historical event that he understands. Even recent ones that children remember clearly.

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    The reason we protect Japan is because they agreed to scale back their imperial military to a small defense force protected by the American nuclear umbrella. It also gives the US influence over Asia and feeds into the global free movement of goods.

    If I were Japan or SKorea hearing this news, I’d be looking hard at a nuclear weapons program.

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    It’s not about “protecting Japan”, it’s about maintaining hegemony. US bases around the world are about projecting and maintaining US power. There’s plenty to fight Trump on, but if he wants to dismantle the US empire, let him do it.

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      True. But how are you guys at .ml going to live in a post-american world without having the US lightning pole to blame for everything? 😜

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    We required they make a constitution were they rely on us for defense. We dictated it. I just can’t handle the president is so ignorant of basic us history and apparently all his advisors and anyone close to him who could explain it. Granted I can see why ignorant hicks like this guy.

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      He publicly denied knowledge of what happened in the last 4 years. While blaming Biden for things. He’s either a dumbass or completely bereft of any connection to honesty.

  • Interesting. so he’s telling Taiwan and Japan to start getting their own militaries strong enough that they can stand on their own. I have no automatic hostility toward the general concept were it done healthily (making sure both Taiwan and Japan transition to good military without issue). It’s a matter of self sufficiency and that, at some point, each place should be baseline strong enough on all crucial facets of it’s empire to stand on it’s own. Better to be able to and choose not to than to not be able to. Having puppies just weaned right now, I don’t disagree with the behavior. Weaning Taiwan and Japan off American military will help both longterm and also get american tendrils out of foreign stuff. Just my take. Feel free to downvote to negative infinity since I’m agreeing with a trump decision. Taiwan just has to hope Trump doesn’t give them to China, which he may be doing. he appease all the bigwigs they let him stay king forever? That tha plan? he going to give ukrain to russia, taiwan to china, then pres for life backed by china russia?

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      It’s a matter of self sufficiency and that, at some point,

      You are thinking in terms of pre-nuclear weapons geopolitics. Nuclear weapons completely changes everything. The 80 year old US nuclear umbrella is the only reason we do not yet have dozens of countries with nuclear weapons. Now because of Trump’s New World Disorder, we can expect a mad scramble of dozens of countries getting nukes.

      It has ALREADY started. Poland says it is going to get its own nukes now. It’s a very wise move for Poland but the beginning of a terrible disaster for planet Earth.

      https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-tusk-plan-train-poland-men-military-service-russia/

      each place should be baseline strong enough

      The world could very easily have 23 new countries becoming “baseline strong” very cheaply in a matter of years simply by building nukes. There are 32 countries that have nuclear power stations now. That is the core technology. And the rest of the world can easily acquire the technology from those 32.

      Does any sane person think that humanity will become MORE SAFE having 32+ nuclear weapons countries instead of 9? Country A would only need 20 nuclear weapons to wipe out Country B’s 20 biggest cities in one day. Even if Country B is the top military power in the world and Country A is a small relatively poor country. And all the suicide bombers and terrorist attacks in the last quarter century prove that Mutual Assured Destruction has major limitations. There is no way that Americans will benefit from this. Trump’s New World Disorder WILL gravely weaken our national security and world security.

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      Japan’s neighbors have a problem with Japan being able to stand on its own. SK and JP need to really get over their past shit.

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        I would have an issue if the fascist state next to me was trying to develop more too, especially one only held back by a greater fascist state historically.

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      Japan to start getting their own militaries strong enough

      Thanks in part to the SCAP in post-WW2, they’re not even allowed to do that. But we all know that Trump doesn’t care about agreements.

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        Oh that’s going to get shredded. The only reason they have kept to that agreement is our continued military support.

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      Right now he’s pretty laser focused in on about a 5 year period in 1940 and a certain country in Europe. Unfortunately I don’t think he’s actually read how that particular story ends though.

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    Too much heat on donald being a Russian asset so he’s going to shift to helping China?