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Its really easy, stop poaching your neighbors territorial waters & threatening Tawain with invasion and you wouldnt need to care about this at all.
How foolish. Japan violently occupied Korea. After the USA nuked Japanese civilians, they took over Japan's dominance of Korea, threatening both Russian and China. The USA was internally debating nuking Korea and also invading China.
When the Vietnamese revolted against French colonial rule, the French brutally repressed them, but still lost. The USA came in to maintain that colonial dominance and destroyed Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, all in positions to threaten China.
The Dalai Lama's brother has written a book expressing his regrets around working with the CIA as they used the Dalai Lama and his family to threaten China. The USA was training Tibetan terrorists and literally airlifting them into Tibet to create violence and chaos and undermine China.
When China underwent a civil war and the losers fled to Taiwan and established a brutal fascist dictatorship and executed the White Terror, the USA and UK blockaded the island to prevent the civil war from continuing because the West wanted the fascists to win.
It's real simple, the USA needs to get the fuck out of Asia entirely, they need to stop withdrawing from nuclear treaties, they need to stop occupying Korea, they need to stop training terrorists in East Asia, they need to remove their 600 international military bases, they need to get rid of their immunity for their soldiers from any and all crimes they commit on foreign soil, they need to drop their policy of invading The Hague if a USA official or soldier is ever tried by the ICC, they need to stop trying to undermine MAD and developing nuclear first strike capabilities, and they need to stop brutal sieges of nations all over the world causing shortages of food and medicine.
Yeah but have you considered that they endanger our hegemony therefore they're bad?
Do you know the name of the book?
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong
Thank you!
Gee, nothing to see here, just some normal US troops less than 2 miles from mainland China
100% legal.
The US has declared its own overseas military deployments legal. All is well. Ford is in his Flivver.
I'm not sure what your apprehension is... it's not like they are forcing it on Japan against their will...
The US demilitarized Japan after they were defeated in WWII, with the Japanese preferentially surrendering to the US to hope for a better deal. The US then established a bunch of bases there. The point of this was to (1) prevent Japan from remilitarizing as its own imperial power and (2) use it as a forward base against the USSR and China.
The US is still using Japan to do this and important segments of the Japanese ruling class are trying to remilitarize Japan itself, both coordinating against China.
Finally, Japan has questionable sovereignty. Japan's economic downtown in the 90s was "synthetic" in the sense that it was created by US-led fiscal policy and not any "natural" result of their economy. I'm sure much of its political class is aware of this. And they are still basically militarily occupied by the US given those *massive" bases, many of which are very unpopular with the locals. Just ask Okinawa.
And again, this is a plane doing a small toe dip on one route vs. long-range missiles designed to be able to carry nukes. Incredibly disproportionate.
My understanding is that after the war, the US agreed to defend Japan. And Japan is still allowed to defend itself against others too. I don't understand how what you're saying is related at all.
The US occupied Japan. The agreement wasn't exactly one made by equals. It was the same kind of deal as the Marshall Plan.
Which parts of what I said don't seem related?
Only until 1952. Everything you're saying sounds like a strawman argument.
Are you under the impression that we've left Japan?
De jure, yes. But also what is your point? Do you think this contradicts anything I said?
A straw man argument is where you pretend someone else is making an argument that they aren't because it is rhetorically easier to address.
At which point have I done that even once?
Taiwan, the island occupied by Japan during the war then the nationalists ran off to it and declared themselves independent because Mao didn't have a navy? Imagine if the republicans ran off to Hawaii and declared independence then China formed a military alliance with them.