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by saiya-jin
2552 days ago
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> people of nations aligned with the US are critical of the US defending itself As an european, I properly couldn't care less about US defending itself, there is no higher moral ground compared to say China (Russia is a special case). We know about all the dirty unlawful watching, how we are considered less than american citizens in many ways etc. I mean we all get why you guys do it, it just has the same moral ground as Chinese doing it |
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Unlike most/all countries in Europe, the US has truly global security interests. As the sole superpower it is in long-term security / defense partnerships all over the world, including in Asia, which pertains directly to the China situation. As the most prominent example, the world's third largest economy - Japan - has no real ability to defend itself from China in a conflict and depends almost entirely on the US for military security (including the US nuclear umbrella).
Are the Europeans going to all rush to Asia to defend Japan and or South Korea in a conflict? No. They're not going to lift a finger to do anything (protest at the UN perhaps), and more realistically can't do anything even if they wanted to. So should the US abandon Japan re defense, pretend we have no security interest there at all? I don't think so.
So no, it's not just the same as China doing it. That's merely the perspective of a European with only regional (the Russian special case) security concerns.
North Korea and South Korea are also not on the same moral ground.