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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-up-is-monopoly dept.

The Pentagon confirmed Monday that major U.S. military exercises this summer in South Korea would be suspended, following President Trump's decision.

'We will be stopping the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount of money, unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along like it should,' Trump told reporters after his meeting last Tuesday with Kim in Singapore. 'But we'll be saving a tremendous amount of money. Plus, I think it's very provocative.'

foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/18/pentagon-confirms-halt-august-war-games-with-south-korea.html


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 20 2018, @02:25PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 20 2018, @02:25PM (#695586) Journal

    You're overstating your case with the loss of coordination. It's just as easy to move some S. Koreans to Kansas, or California, or New Hampshire for training, as it is for us to move stuff over there. Training together doesn't actually require that you be in South Korea to do it.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday June 20 2018, @04:29PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 20 2018, @04:29PM (#695641) Journal

    It's just as easy to move some S. Koreans to Kansas, or California, or New Hampshire for training, as it is for us to move stuff over there.

    Given that most of the joint military exercises in Korea [wikipedia.org] were based (required) heavy naval support, Kansas seems indeed like the perfect alternative training ground (grin)

    Continuing on the same line, here are two other suggestions, one more brillianter than the other:
    - take the Afghan and Iraq forces currently under training by US military and start training them in, say, Montana. Because it's cheaper
    - round up all the Talibans you are warring with in Afghanistan and Pakistan and disembark them in Arkansas, plonk into the Bible belt. This way you can let the Christian Talibans use their God-given guns to fight the Muslim Talibans for much cheaper than abroad. You can even tax them for the fun they are having.

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    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:30PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @09:30PM (#695806) Homepage Journal

      America used to have the greatest military, we used to be so powerful militarily. We actually used to have a beautiful Naval Base in Kansas. Near Olathe, where there was that terrible shooting. But my predecessors, very foolishly, shut it down. Here we are, protecting Korea. Protecting Japan, Germany -- NATO -- so many places. And it's costing us tremendously. To where possibly they're costing us more as friends than they did as enemies. And we're not protecting the middle of our Country the way we used to. And the way we need to. Sad!!!