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Opposition Grows to US Bases Poised Against China

• Kukumber 4y ago
  Related: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/abe-ignores-controversial-okinawa-referendum-on-us-base-move https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/abe-ignores-cont...
• Oxidation 4y ago
  Yet another potential conflict that will happen almost exclusively "over there". War seems very easy and righteous when it's an export.
  • simonblack 4y ago
    The problem is when it is no longer 'over there'. One should always keep in mind Goering's boast 'You can call me Meyer'.
    • Oxidation 4y ago
      Certainly that would be a problem for the US. Over a century since war (as opposed to terrorism) has touched the continental US[1] means that no one alive remembers that being a problem, and it shows. [1]: except $500 of damage from a Japanese submarine in 1942, perhaps.