The numbers you cited are a factor in reexamining and recalibrating the US's strategic presence in So Korea. But money is not the only factor involved. The security risks due to CCP infiltration at all levels of government must be considered as well. However, because of its geographic location, So Korea is still a very important post WW2 Soviet component in a comprehensive Indo-Pacific defense strategy. Just walking away at this point is not wise. Any vacuum left by the US will be filled by someone else - the CCP.
It is no joke that the CCP has a 100 year plan for global domination under the control of the CCP using indirect asymmetric irregular warfare. The globalists think that the CCP is a tool for them to use to destroy the US and the West. What they don't realize is that the CCP will turn on them in the end. That's what Communists do.
Don't forget, the Dems, as well as some RINOs, are tied at the hip to the CCP. So this is not just a foreign battle, it is also domestic. A great deal of civil unrest in the US traces back to the CCP among a whole list of CCP espionage and influence operations. They are dead serious about their goals and the US needs to be just as serious. The US for years knowingly ignored what was taking place regarding the CCP's soft power and economic influence operations - that is, until Trump came to the WH. Trump is the only president that takes that threat seriously and has taken the bull by the horns confronting it. So Korea is just another piece on the geopolitical chessboard to be played.
The numbers you cited are a factor in reexamining and recalibrating the US's strategic presence in So Korea. But money is not the only factor involved. The security risks due to CCP infiltration at all levels of government must be considered as well. However, because of its geographic location, So Korea is still a very important post WW2 Soviet component in a comprehensive Indo-Pacific defense strategy. Just walking away at this point is not wise. Any vacuum left by the US will be filled by someone else - the CCP.
It is no joke that the CCP has a 100 year plan for global domination under the control of the CCP using indirect asymmetric irregular warfare. The globalists think that the CCP is a tool for them to use to destroy the US and the West. What they don't realize is that the CCP will turn on them in the end. That's what Communists do.
Don't forget, the Dems, as well as some RINOs, are tied at the hip to the CCP. So this is not just a foreign battle, it is also domestic. A great deal of civil unrest in the US traces back to the CCP among a whole list of CCP espionage and influence operations. They are dead serious about their goals and the US needs to be just as serious. The US for years knowingly ignored what was taking place regarding the CCP's soft power and economic influence operations - that is, until Trump came to the WH. Trump is the only president that takes that threat seriously and has taken the bull by the horns confronting it. So Korea is just another piece on the geopolitical chessboard to be played.