(July 1, 2018 at 11:11 am)mh.brewer Wrote:(July 1, 2018 at 10:46 am)Wololo Wrote: They're not war games, they're joint manoeuvres designed to ensure a properly coordinated joint defence between US and South Korean forces in event of a North Korean attack. By abandoning them not alone is Trump decreasing the effictiveness of a hypothetical future defence against an attack, but much worse he is signalling to US allies in East Asia that they can't depend on him if they get attacked.
Expect both South Korea and Japan to move much closer to China in the near future.
OK, war games was a poor choice. Have they been completely abandoned or only cancelled? If NK does not continue to play can't they be reinstituted?
NK saber rattles and we rattle back, what good does that do? I think the summit de-escalated the chance of attack from NK.
The problem with what President Shithole has done, is that he has ignored his own intel, and been as so arrogant as to claim he could solve what no president republican or democrat prior could do. There is a reason that Reagan, and Bush Sr and Clinton, and Bush Jr and Obama all let China keep NK on a leash. Giving the lost Stooge Un a face to face visit has allowed him the legitimacy Un should not have.
It is also an affront to Japan our ally.
