German Navy is effectively locked in dry dock. Funding cuts and parts shortages mean most of it is essentially ineffective. And what is available to sortie can’t stray far from Germany without months of preparations and stashing equipment and supplies.
South Korea is not liable to dispatch Forces beyond the Pacific. Not until the question of ‘Best Korea’ and China is answered. Especially after parts of U.S Missile Defensive batteries were stripped to replace equipment losses in the Middle East
The Japanese can’t legally under the Constitution MacArthur wrote for them deploy Forces Offensively. A case of Decisions that seemed genius to strategic planners 75+ years ago. Shooting the U.S in the foot 75 years later. While the Right-Wing in Japan has the numbers to rewrite the Constitution.
It’s still a Legislative Body. And those generally don’t move particularly quickly unless their personal safety is directly threatened.
Not completely true regarding Japan. In 2014, Shinzo Abe’s cabinet reinterpreted Article 9 to allow the Japan self defense forces to engage in combat to defend allies. That reinterpretation is still active, so they absolutely could come to help their US allies if they wanted to. They don't. It puts Abe's assassination into a new light.
"I think Trump is not just setting up a withdrawal from NATO, I think he is setting up a withdrawal of our military presence around the globe, and will eventually begin the process of consolidating US MIL presence to the Western Hemisphere, once we are done with Iran and the war in Ukraine is over.
I think the end goal is normalized relations with Russia and China, and thus the permanent end to the Cold War that never really ended. This is only possible by removing US military presence off of China and Russia’s doorstep, as well as ending Russian/Chinese meddling in our hemisphere, via places like Venezuela and Cuba, which is already happening.
What if the US, Russia, and China, just agreed to stop the espionage, weapons of mass destruction, proxy wars, and meddling in each other’s regions? What if the superpowers were on the same side instead of against each other?
It’s possible, and things seem to be inching in that direction. Russia and China are losing their influence in the Western Hemisphere, and Trump is posturing like he is going to remove our presence in the Eastern Hemisphere.
I think we are witnessing a restructure of the global order, and the global “alliances” as we know them are about to shift dramatically."
This is a good thing in my opinion. I didn’t ever really like that our military had bases all over the world. So if he does consolidate our bases, especially those in Europe, I would be in support of it. And exiting NATO would be a good thing.
I think Trump is about to do...............good luck with that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I go ya one better then, PAID FOR SERVICES of MILITARY USAGE on the SPOT. We ain't dying if you ain't paying, plus we plan on not dying. Future personnel who enter Military will know they are paid to KICK AZZ.
What if we were the MILITARY for the WORLD....what do you think that looks like?
A GOLDEN DOME cover over the USA and artillery from space.....hmmmm
I believe that one of the terms of German and Jap surrender at the end of WW2 was that these two nations were not allowed to send their armed forces to fight wars outside of their borders. But, constant reader, if you know different?
German Navy is effectively locked in dry dock. Funding cuts and parts shortages mean most of it is essentially ineffective. And what is available to sortie can’t stray far from Germany without months of preparations and stashing equipment and supplies.
South Korea is not liable to dispatch Forces beyond the Pacific. Not until the question of ‘Best Korea’ and China is answered. Especially after parts of U.S Missile Defensive batteries were stripped to replace equipment losses in the Middle East
The Japanese can’t legally under the Constitution MacArthur wrote for them deploy Forces Offensively. A case of Decisions that seemed genius to strategic planners 75+ years ago. Shooting the U.S in the foot 75 years later. While the Right-Wing in Japan has the numbers to rewrite the Constitution.
It’s still a Legislative Body. And those generally don’t move particularly quickly unless their personal safety is directly threatened.
Not completely true regarding Japan. In 2014, Shinzo Abe’s cabinet reinterpreted Article 9 to allow the Japan self defense forces to engage in combat to defend allies. That reinterpretation is still active, so they absolutely could come to help their US allies if they wanted to. They don't. It puts Abe's assassination into a new light.
"I think Trump is not just setting up a withdrawal from NATO, I think he is setting up a withdrawal of our military presence around the globe, and will eventually begin the process of consolidating US MIL presence to the Western Hemisphere, once we are done with Iran and the war in Ukraine is over.
I think the end goal is normalized relations with Russia and China, and thus the permanent end to the Cold War that never really ended. This is only possible by removing US military presence off of China and Russia’s doorstep, as well as ending Russian/Chinese meddling in our hemisphere, via places like Venezuela and Cuba, which is already happening.
What if the US, Russia, and China, just agreed to stop the espionage, weapons of mass destruction, proxy wars, and meddling in each other’s regions? What if the superpowers were on the same side instead of against each other?
It’s possible, and things seem to be inching in that direction. Russia and China are losing their influence in the Western Hemisphere, and Trump is posturing like he is going to remove our presence in the Eastern Hemisphere.
I think we are witnessing a restructure of the global order, and the global “alliances” as we know them are about to shift dramatically."
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This is a good thing in my opinion. I didn’t ever really like that our military had bases all over the world. So if he does consolidate our bases, especially those in Europe, I would be in support of it. And exiting NATO would be a good thing.
I think Trump is about to do...............good luck with that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I go ya one better then, PAID FOR SERVICES of MILITARY USAGE on the SPOT. We ain't dying if you ain't paying, plus we plan on not dying. Future personnel who enter Military will know they are paid to KICK AZZ.
What if we were the MILITARY for the WORLD....what do you think that looks like?
A GOLDEN DOME cover over the USA and artillery from space.....hmmmm
India and China to show up??
I don’t totally agree with the X. I think that for the moment, the CCP is the odd man out.
China is either going to implode or explode. I think Xi and Trump are trying to prevent the latter.
This is exactly what I think is happening and why its playing out the way it is. I think it's also to get us out of nato and the like.
This is an interesting viewpoint.
I believe that one of the terms of German and Jap surrender at the end of WW2 was that these two nations were not allowed to send their armed forces to fight wars outside of their borders. But, constant reader, if you know different?