Okinawans are Japanese, who overall absolutely want the support of the US. Thankfully, the deeply racist and xenophobic Okinawans who don't want white men arou

Okinawans are Japanese, who overall absolutely want the support of the US. Thankfully, the deeply racist and xenophobic Okinawans who don't want white men around their daughters and who lack the broader context of understanding how important their overal security is ... don't get entirely to make the call entirely themselves. Or rather, if there were 'sovereign and independent' of both Japan and the US, they'd have to instantly reverse course and beg for the Americans and Japanese to come back in some form, lest they be completely controlled by China.