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Pentagon Confirms Halt of War Games With South Korea

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

realDonaldTrump writes:

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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• Re:cute, but false Re:cute, but false (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:22PM (1 child)

  by Arik (4543) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:22PM (#695862) Journal

  "You left out the USSR's role in all this."
  
  Oh, I left out volumes. It's necessary, else I would never post, and if I did no one would read it.
  
  "we let the USSR" [...] "then let the USSR"
  
  This all assumes that the USSR was under our control. To put it plainly, it was not. It's quite possible that the converse was closer to the truth, though still not true. The guy in the White House at the time idolized "Uncle Joe" Stalin, and so did many of his key supporters, and he certainly wasn't interested in confronting him. But even if he had been more hostile, or suppose somehow we suddenly got Patton as President - what then? Invade the USSR, really? That wasn't going to fly politically or materially. Nor would it have been wise. The Soviet Union destroyed itself with its own peace-time economic failures. Giving them excuses to stay on war-time economic footing only played into their hands.
  
  

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• The USSR was desperate for help. (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:05AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:05AM (#695939)

  Hitler damn near defeated Stalin. We shipped all sorts of shit over there to ensure history went down a different path. We provided trucks, aircraft...

  We didn't need to do that. We didn't need to hand over part of Germany and part of Korea. Of course, the USSR didn't need to be so damn evil.

  North Korea is essentially a creation of the USSR, assisted by us being dumb enough to hand it over.

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