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USA should definitely go to war with another nuclear power over islands whose sovereignty is disputed and USA takes no position on.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @GregDjerejian and
To be clear: US position is that the islands do in fact fall under the defense treaty! Happy to discuss more, but I think that's a good thing - not b/c I care about the Senkakus, but b/c I think it increases the odds that East Asia's territorial disputes are resolved peacefully.
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Replying to @McReynoldsJoe @HeerJeet and
Without strong and consistent US defense commitments to its allies and partners in the region, the odds that China addresses its revanchist claims (both large and small) via force goes up exponentially. Not to mention likely follow-on effects if we left, such as a Japanese bomb.
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Replying to @McReynoldsJoe @HeerJeet and
Side note: IMHO there's a major cultural divide between IR pros who came up focused on the American role in the Middle East, shaped by the Iraq War, and those of us who focus on East Asia, where after the horror of Vietnam, the US has largely been a beacon of peace and stability.
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Replying to @McReynoldsJoe @GregDjerejian and
Maybe because of may training as historian but I can't put aside the mid-20th century slaughterhouse (war without mercy ending in Hiroshima, Korean slaughter, Indonesia 1965, Vietnam) as merely distant past. It's the site of USA empire at its most ferocious.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @McReynoldsJoe and
Jeet, do you think Japan and Korea would be better off today if U.S. "empire" hadn't intervened there in that era? Honest question.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @McReynoldsJoe and
Depends how far in terms of interventions you want to go. Admiral Perry?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @McReynoldsJoe and
Noah Smith 🐇 🇺🇦 Retweeted Jeet Heer
Commodore, but let's not change the subject here. Let us refer to the specific interventions you just condemned -- WW2 and the Korean War.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1469841898038771717 …
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Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeetReplying to @McReynoldsJoe @GregDjerejian and 2 othersMaybe because of may training as historian but I can't put aside the mid-20th century slaughterhouse (war without mercy ending in Hiroshima, Korean slaughter, Indonesia 1965, Vietnam) as merely distant past. It's the site of USA empire at its most ferocious.3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
In any case, I'd say the main point of these wars is that they belong to another period. The age of empire is over. Former foes (Japan, even Vietnam) are allies or friendly. These are thriving countries & can take a greater role in their own defense.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @McReynoldsJoe and
I agree that Japan can take a greater role in its defense, and in fact it is in the process of doing so. As for Vietnam, it has always been pretty much on its own, and defended itself when China invaded it in 1979.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @McReynoldsJoe and
Yes, in 1979, USA was on side of China and Khmer Rouge against Vietnam. Good times.
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