Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:46 am
Wonder what he'd do if the North decided to try and invade South Korea again? They've obviously already had - perhaps limited - involvement in Ukraine and are pally with his best mate Vlad, so not exactly his arch enemy. Obviously there's US troops in the South but can imagine him pulling them out and saying "this is a faraway place, not our problem!".
If the US was to abandon South Korea, then Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines would all know that they're f*cked and would disengage from their US security agreements. Australia and New Zealand would need to seriously reconsider their options too. Which may be inevitable anyway, but the US is still reliant on trade from the Asia-pacific region, so it will not do so
yet.
However, the US's muscle flexing over North, Central and some Southern American countries could make sense if it has already concluded to rapidly on-shore all of its industrial and agricultural needs onto the home continent. If it does this, then it will lose its incentive to maintain dominance in and around the seas of Asia.
And North Korea very much
does intend to invade the South. It was at its request, not the Kremlins, that Korean troops were deployed to the battlefront in Ukraine - it's getting them battle experience.
