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2015-04-28 China-Japan-Koreas

US Defense Commitment to Japan 'Ironclad', Includes Senkakus: Kerry

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Posted by Fred 2015-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I'm sure they're reassured. I would be reassured.
(I would start assembling my nukes today.)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-04-28 07:41|| 2015-04-28 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, at least you can't say he isn't covering his Acheson bases on this one. Lip service is the absolute minimum, but wars have started for less.

Posted by Mitch H. 2015-04-28 09:03|| 2015-04-28 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Joe Isuzu couldn't hold a candle to Kerry.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-28 09:43|| 2015-04-28 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Says Jawn, knowing full well Obean won't be put to the test here.

Posted by gorb 2015-04-28 10:22|| 2015-04-28 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 See also BLOOMBERG > WILL US LET JAPAN LOOSEN ITS [post-WW2/1945] CONSTITUTION?

VERSUS

* WORLD NEWS > [Stars-N-Stripes] REPORT: US, PHILIPPINES AGREE ON [Troops, Air, Naval] ROTATIONS TO [Philippine] BASES NEAR SOUTH CHINA SEA.

Iff China never felt being squeezed by POTUS Obama's "Pivot to Asia", its prob FEELING THE SQUEEZE NOW???

* SAME > [Noodls = Heritage Foundation] AMERICA NEEDS A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR COUNTERING CHINA'S EXPANDING PERIMETER OF NATIONAL INTERESTS.

D *** NG IT, DO YA MEAN CHINA'S DESIRED FUTURE ANTI-US "SPHERE OF INTEREST" IN EAST ASIA-PACIFIC [EastPac] = 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC BOOKER!?

Uh, uh, methinks that Anti-US US OWG Globalist Obama = USA already has strategy - its called PCorrect-Deniable, OWG GLOBALIST US STRATEGIC/GLOBAL SELF-RETREAT = UNILATERAL RETREAT/FALLBACK = US-N-ONLY-THE-US "RETREAT IS WORLD PEACE".

Again, the Globies have NOT yet answered how much is "too much", andor how far is "too far", etc. for the Soon-to-be-Ex-Sole-Superpower-Future C-SUperpower USoAmerika, the OWG Mighty USSA versus the OWG Weak USRoA Gobal SSR, is supposed to give up and retreat widout being existentially threatened by its new Co-Superpower Siblings Russia, Iran, + China, Other(s)? or NGOS, etc. wannabes???

just sayin.

* SAME > [Noodls] YEMEN, IRAN STRATEGIC NAVAL EXPANSION, ANTI-ACCESS AREA -DENIAL [A2-AD].

A [Self = Unilaterally]"Weak/Declining" USA = Rising Iran = Rising China = Rising Putinist Russia = Rising ... ...???

"US-STYLE", NUCLEAR, PAR-WID-THE-USA-NOT-INFERIOR-TO-THE-USA CO-SUPERPOWERS-IN-DA-HOOD.

As one Nation falls, forcibly or voluntarily, Another or Other(s) will rise, correct???

Thus it is NOT wrong to link or infer so-called MilPol/Geopol "Parity" or "Rough Parity" wid some forms(s) of "Superiority" or even
"Dominance".

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA TO INTEGRATE MONGOLIAN, RUSSIA INITIATIVES WID [India-led] MSR - THE HINDU.

IMO "Russia" in China's view read = EAST OF THE URALS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-04-28 22:54|| 2015-04-28 22:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Iff the Kennedy Clan hope to see their family return to prestigious Pol Preeminence, then such hope may indeed rest on Caroline's shoulders vee preventing a major China-Japan = China-US? war, espec Nuclear, in NE Asia.

* By the Precepts or Tenets of ANTI-US OWG GLOBALISM, CHINA is the more correct one in desiring 1/2 of the Pacific [East Asia-WESTPAC] + wanting the US to unilaterally pull back towards Hawaii + US West Coast [EASTPAC], NOT THE US IN ENTRENCHING OR REMAINING, ETC. IN EAST ASIA, WESTPAC, ETC. VEE ITS TRADITIONAL COLD WAR ASIAN ALLIES + POTUS OBAMA'S "PIVOT".

Again, China sees US MilBases everywhere just off its coasts - China sees no PLA Milbases off any US coasts.

Recipe for Geopol + Nukulaar troubles.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-04-28 23:07|| 2015-04-28 23:07|| Front Page Top

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