Posted on 04/03/2016 4:14:54 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Donald Trump on Saturday told a crowd of thousands he was sanguine about potential hostilities between North Korea and its neighbors.
Speaking at a rally in Rothschild, Wisconsin ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday, the Republican Donald Trump on Saturday told a crowd of thousands he was sanguine about potential hostilities between North Korea and its neighbors.
Speaking at a rally in Rothschild, Wisconsin ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday, the Republican presidential frontrunner said that if conflict between Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea were to break out, “it would be a terrible thing but if they do, they do” the Republican presidential frontrunner said that if conflict between Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea were to break out, “it would be a terrible thing but if they do, they do”.
Good luck,” he added. “Enjoy yourself, folks.” .....
Oh, that's right. Donald Trump says this. Somebody please speak sense to him quick, before there are larger diplomatic wounds, and misunderstandings incurred by our regional ALLIES while our enemies are being emboldened by such careless, sophomoric drivel into possible testing provocations. (And I thought that Mental Lilliputian Barack Obama was insulting to regional pro-American ••Allies•• -- and wrote about it since 2008 repeatedly on FR.)
he keeps trying to get me to lose my vote on the 19th in NY
The Guardian - hater of any interference of American power (although they love our money) - suddenly complaining about the threat of American retreat? Boo-hoo! Take it up with Clark County, you silly Brits!
Oh wouldn’t it be wonderful if he was a polished, slippery, smooth talker like all the other politians who we all have come to like so well.
Yes, it’s just better that these matters aren’t discussed in public, right?
After all, what the hell does the public know anyhow?
Well—the American public, at least, from your point of view.
Honestly, I agree with him. Either belly up and pay for your own damn protection, or shut up.
Maybe that’s Donald’s way of saying America won’t necessarily be going to war with Japan vs North Korea, right away, or full throttle. You are right, though, it was a capricious, dangerously vague remark to make. I still suspect Donald has tired of the campaign and wants to get off the (not so) Merry go round, but doesn’t know how to do it w/o looking like a quitter. He seems to manufacture a steady amount of stumbling blocks for himself. I hope I’m wrong.
He is getting weirder and weirder.
This was just a bizarre thing to say.
We don’t need you.
Well, grab a last bite of sushi, pack your bags and come home. Konbanwa!
These two numbers are not even counting US Forces Japan (USFJ) and US Forces Korea (USFK) totaling in the tens of thousands.
What does this have to do with the source newspaper.
He said it.
The message Trump is sending is that South Korea and Japan should not automatically assume that we’re going to come running to their defense.
Trump indicated earlier this week that he wouldn’t have a problem with South Korea or Japan obtaining their own nuclear capability (we can assume Japan is within a week or two of assembling a small nuclear arsenal, South Korea? Not sure).
Considering that North Korea has threatened their major neighbor in the area (Communist China) with a ‘nuclear storm’, Kim Jong Fat Boy is going to probably be taken out by Beijing first, before he even gets to the point of initiating hostilities with Seoul or Tokyo.
The bottom line message from Trump to the more reasonable nations in that region?
Simple: “take out your own garbage”.
Nope, he took off the gloves. This is MMA without protection. There are going to be people limping, crawling, and just out of their minds carried away.
Guess we have to go listen to his speech to see what he really said.
Take that up with MacArthur. If he were still around today and saw what Shinzo Abe was up to when it came to not only trying to scrap Article 9 but also trying to reinstitute State Shinto, you wouldn’t be able to get him off the cable news channels with his sounding of the alarm. He didn’t say “We have had our last chance” for no reason, and if we blow that, all bets are off the table.
They are trying to discredit Trump amongst his supporters, they certainly aren’t aghast at this, it is a propaganda coup for them, because it shows just how much of an idiot this fool is. I’m beginning to believe the conspiracy theories about Trump being there in order to get Clinton elected.
I’m just curious. Did you actually listen to the speech or are you just relying on the newspaper account of his speech?
There are millions of political illiterates in the US it seems and some on this thread.
It really is dumbfounding to hear such know-nothingness. In the past such comments would be exclusive to the fringe left.
The source is a complete anti-American hate fest day in and day out, or haven’t you heard?
Trump is telling our allies to pay their fair share. You have a problem with that? Or do you like paying to police the world?
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