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In reply to the discussion: Trump hikes price tag for US forces in Korea almost 500% as Seoul questions alliance [View all]soryang
(3,299 posts)22. There's been a steady stream of US officials traveling to Japan and South Korea
...sent over there to jawbone the South Korean administration into submission to US and Japanese demands. It reminds me of early 20th Century colonialism and the protectorate of Ito Hirobumi. Trump and the Pentagon are looking for the new Traitors of Eulsa to sign away South Korea to the overlords.
It's interesting that you said "anyone who follows that area of the world," because VOA Korea has Scot Snyder on quite frequently and I've never heard him make one criticism against the US demands.
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Trump hikes price tag for US forces in Korea almost 500% as Seoul questions alliance [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2019
OP
"Congress has the power of the purse" -- but the Senate has let him ride roughshod ...
Hekate
Nov 2019
#35
Trump, on a whim, takes US troops away from an area under threat from a totalitarian neighbor
Dennis Donovan
Nov 2019
#5
Republicans are supposedly appaled by Trump, but they do absolutely nothing.
Lonestarblue
Nov 2019
#6
Trump is pushing away solid ally after solid ally. He will leave the US isolated and unprepared for
Nitram
Nov 2019
#16
There's been a steady stream of US officials traveling to Japan and South Korea
soryang
Nov 2019
#22