I don't think people in the US realize what really happened in the past 2 months.
Pax Americana is dead. Full stop.
There are a lot of countries able to develop nuclear weapons, and after decades of voluntarily restraining themselves, now they will. Every single one of them. USA is no longer trusted as an ally. There is simply no other option.
I'm not sure you read the article here, this isn't Trump's doing (beyond not undoing Biden's action). This was a Biden reaction to President Yoon's attempted coup and prior expressed interest in nuclear weapons.
Trump already has a long list of foreign policy disasters, but this isn't one of them.
And now we will have every country bordering an empire armed with nukes. We can also assume those with money already have them.
Now im sure if gametheory is involved, the middle east will cease to be in the next 20 years.
Culture relativists will have the blood of a billion people on their hands. Why did you not help?
US wants SK to have to rely on the US for economic and military needs. Of course the US doesn't want SK to have nukes. It's good for SK to have them though.
In all seriousness, the Ukraine war and the response has changed everything for SK. There is no guaranteed that the US will or could defend SK now and in the future.
In all seriousness, theres 30k troops and 10 plus US military installations in the country along with the Mutual Defense Treaty. How many US bases were there in Ukraine?
Doesnt really matter when Biden ordered all military and diplomatic personnel out of the country when it became clear attack was imminent. What makes you think anything will be different in SK?
Yeah, no shit, get the embassy workers and contractors out. Also has the beautiful side effect of washing your hands of anyone that chooses to stay behind. As I stated before, the US presence in Korea is not just paper pushing diplomats.
> the Ukraine war and the response has changed everything for SK
I'm curious: Is this speculation, or are you speaking from a place of knowledge? I don't know any Korean and am therefore unable to follow Korean media, so I'd love to hear more about what the general sentiment is among Koreans right now towards the US (specifically the Trump administration).
Little known is that the core of Korean culture is based on a clan system, and that there is a powerfull connection between north and south, making the impossed division much more tenious than what appears on the surface.
Reunification is the thing that all of the outside powers are working to prevent, but are now facing a situation where demographics, alone, will dictate how things will procede.
A unified nonaligned sovereign nuclear Korea would be a disaster for continuous US plan to divide Eurasian continent.
A chance for the rest of the world.
We laugh at North Korea in the west but we forget that Korea is split country tied together by family ties and language, and it has a fundamental drive for reunification, much like how Germany once was. A unified Korea would not necessarily be under US control like South Korea is now.
The generation with family ties to the North is dead or dying. The younger generation cares only because their parents did. The newest kids won't even give a fuck. North Korean and South Korean is like a Mexican speaking with a Spaniard. You say you laugh at 'North Korea' in the west, but I would probably argue the closest to the West you have come is Vladivostok
I don't think people in the US realize what really happened in the past 2 months.
Pax Americana is dead. Full stop.
There are a lot of countries able to develop nuclear weapons, and after decades of voluntarily restraining themselves, now they will. Every single one of them. USA is no longer trusted as an ally. There is simply no other option.
I'm not sure you read the article here, this isn't Trump's doing (beyond not undoing Biden's action). This was a Biden reaction to President Yoon's attempted coup and prior expressed interest in nuclear weapons.
Trump already has a long list of foreign policy disasters, but this isn't one of them.
And now we will have every country bordering an empire armed with nukes. We can also assume those with money already have them. Now im sure if gametheory is involved, the middle east will cease to be in the next 20 years. Culture relativists will have the blood of a billion people on their hands. Why did you not help?
US wants SK to have to rely on the US for economic and military needs. Of course the US doesn't want SK to have nukes. It's good for SK to have them though.
Maybe they should sign something like the Budapest Memorandum with the US?
In all seriousness, the Ukraine war and the response has changed everything for SK. There is no guaranteed that the US will or could defend SK now and in the future.
In all seriousness, theres 30k troops and 10 plus US military installations in the country along with the Mutual Defense Treaty. How many US bases were there in Ukraine?
Doesnt really matter when Biden ordered all military and diplomatic personnel out of the country when it became clear attack was imminent. What makes you think anything will be different in SK?
Yeah, no shit, get the embassy workers and contractors out. Also has the beautiful side effect of washing your hands of anyone that chooses to stay behind. As I stated before, the US presence in Korea is not just paper pushing diplomats.
> the Ukraine war and the response has changed everything for SK
I'm curious: Is this speculation, or are you speaking from a place of knowledge? I don't know any Korean and am therefore unable to follow Korean media, so I'd love to hear more about what the general sentiment is among Koreans right now towards the US (specifically the Trump administration).
You don't have to speak korean to follow the general newsflow. Here's two examples of sites you can browse if you are interested in Korean MSM
> https://en.yna.co.kr/ > https://www.chosun.com/english/
Little known is that the core of Korean culture is based on a clan system, and that there is a powerfull connection between north and south, making the impossed division much more tenious than what appears on the surface. Reunification is the thing that all of the outside powers are working to prevent, but are now facing a situation where demographics, alone, will dictate how things will procede.
A unified nonaligned sovereign nuclear Korea would be a disaster for continuous US plan to divide Eurasian continent. A chance for the rest of the world.
We laugh at North Korea in the west but we forget that Korea is split country tied together by family ties and language, and it has a fundamental drive for reunification, much like how Germany once was. A unified Korea would not necessarily be under US control like South Korea is now.
The generation with family ties to the North is dead or dying. The younger generation cares only because their parents did. The newest kids won't even give a fuck. North Korean and South Korean is like a Mexican speaking with a Spaniard. You say you laugh at 'North Korea' in the west, but I would probably argue the closest to the West you have come is Vladivostok
Eh, east germany regularly reappears as a unrelenting prussian reencarnation every election. That cultural divide is realkly deep.