Trump asks Japan to hike payments for U.S. troops to $8 billion: Foreign Policy

Reuters•November 16, 2019

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  1 second ago

  (1) Trump has already alienate all his trading partners.
  
  (2) Japan and S Korea should just tell US army personnel to leave their respective base - but beef up their military to serve their own interest rather than Trump-led US interest.
  
  (3) Trump led US is like a loan shark, a never-ending greedy man - with no base in a well - where he will keep asking Japan and SKorea to pay and pay.

23 seconds ago

(1) Like many Countries in EU - eg. Germany, France etc - they are forming a EU Army, develop their own 5G stealth fighter plane and rely less on Trump-led US --- because they don't want to be keep extorted by Trump for more and more money.

(2) Japan and SKorea likewise should do the same - the first is to let the US troop go from their base - but beef up their own defenses - while maintaining a better relationship with their neighbors.

2 seconds ago

(1) When this happen, Trump-led US will lose all this overseas allies and bases overnight.

(2) And Trump-led US can fend for himself - and find himself isolated overnight.

(3) US allies should just let Trump led US troop leave - and not let Trump extort at will - like an extremely greedy man.

2 seconds ago

(1) Trump has lost his base in Middle East.

(2) Trump has lost his base in EU.

(3) Asia Pacific should also kick Trump led US out.

(4) And soon Trump only has US base left - and none overseas.

(5) And soon Trump led US will be surrounded by all his adversaries - as Trump led US will himself totally isolated from the rest of the World.

1 second ago

(1) With trade alienated by Trump from the rest of the World.

(2) With security bases alienated by Trump from the rest of the World.

(3) Next the World will alienate US $ as a trading currency and reduce its significance from the World financial system.

(4) And Trump will succeed in fully isolating US from the rest of the World - with his "America First and the World last slogan" ----- because Trump led US is also not important to the World.

(5) Asia Pacific will be signing the World largest Asia Pacific trade pact - RCEP.

(6) CPTPP is already signed without Trump led US.

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  21 hours ago

  We need to understand that the U.S troops are not stationed in Japan to protect Japan but for the interests of the U.S. in the region.
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  yesterday

  The US is asking the same of South Korea. My understanding was that these nations basically cede the land the US bases are on. The US used to pay for bases in the Philippines, allowed US naval visits for R&R and other access so the US could maintain control over the Pacific.
  
  But if the military is going to be paid for by the countries we supposedly give "aid" to that could mean that more and more they will start doing what Turkey is doing...looking for the cheapest option to purchase military material and even support/training. That could draw old allies into the sheer of Russia or China.
  
  As well, if the cost of our military is increasingly going to be covered by foreign allies then shouldn't the military budget go down? We could spend that money on all the other things that the Trump Administration is cutting. School lunches, Medicare for Children, put it into bolstering the depleting Social Security fund.
  
  And what if the Japanese and Koreans call our bluff and ask us to leave? They'd then stock up with Russian subs, anti-missile systems, their own attack jets..,.,and simply take over the US bases. But we are potentially ceding more of the region to China - esp. if these nations suddenly feel that they are threatened by China...they may have to make bad deals allowing China to expand into the S China Sea even more...which someday, after Trump, a future US President and US military will have to deal with.
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  yesterday

  I guess donnie is not aware of the peace treaty. Then again japan has made a few changes to their constitution but we are still legally bound to protect them/
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  18 hours ago

  Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said the report was incorrect and no U.S.-Japan negotiations on a new agreement have taken place. Haha. trump lied again
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  10 hours ago

  I have a better idea. Japan tells the US to get their base out of their country. How about that?
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  yesterday

  Just funny world - Why would the Japanese fund an occupational army that is foreign and very unpopular instead of sending that money to her own Japanese Defence Forces?
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  18 hours ago

  8 billion? That’s about how much inside traders have made off of Trump’s trade war market manipulation.
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  11 hours ago

  Trump is now trying to get funding from Japan to pay for his vanity border wall "indirectly" since Mexico told him to go pound sand, AFTER he conned his supporters into believing Mexico would pay for it. But Japan, if their smart, is not going to pay any more than they already are for US troops. Maybe Trump doesn't know that the US troops in Japan are more beneficial to the United States than then they are to Japan as the sole purpose for US troops in Japan is to contain China. They are not there to protect Japan from North Korea and/or Russia as I'm sure Trump mistakenly believes.
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  12 hours ago

  Japan won’t have to pay anything if they manufacture evidence against Joe Biden, administration officials confirmed today.
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  yesterday

  They should do what Trump would do. Acquiesce to the price hike and just NOT PAY. Say something like the troops behaved badly or the ship spilled some oil or any excuse to show dissatisfaction with the occupation. If not for North Korea and China playing their shenanigans those countries would've asked us to leave sooner. So what happens if they (South Korea and Japan) say no? We won't be moving the fleet to Hawaii, maybe Somoa?