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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @GregDjerejian @Noahpinion @nikhil_palsingh

      USA should definitely go to war with another nuclear power over islands whose sovereignty is disputed and USA takes no position on.

      11 replies 3 retweets 45 likes
    2. Joe McReynolds‏ @McReynoldsJoe 11 Dec 2021
      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.

      5 replies 1 retweet 66 likes
    3. Joe McReynolds‏ @McReynoldsJoe 11 Dec 2021
      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.

      6 replies 3 retweets 93 likes
    4. Joe McReynolds‏ @McReynoldsJoe 11 Dec 2021
      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.

      6 replies 3 retweets 43 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Dec 2021
      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.

      6 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    6. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Dec 2021
      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.

      4 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @Noahpinion @McReynoldsJoe and

      Depends how far in terms of interventions you want to go. Admiral Perry?

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Dec 2021
      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 …

      Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦 added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      Replying to @McReynoldsJoe @GregDjerejian and 2 others
      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.
      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @Noahpinion @McReynoldsJoe and

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    10. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Dec 2021
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Dec 2021
      Replying to @Noahpinion @McReynoldsJoe and

      Yes, in 1979, USA was on side of China and Khmer Rouge against Vietnam. Good times.

      7:41 PM - 11 Dec 2021
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        2. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 11 Dec 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @McReynoldsJoe and

          So forgive me if I don't see how Vietnam could take any greater of a role in its own defense than it already does...?

          3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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