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Shoo...nothing to see here. - zeio
Hey zeio, you're never getting that money. This is our MO. We like to invade other countries in the name of democracy while pillaging wealth. Then we install a wildly unpopular local government under our control. Then the local people rise up and revolt against the government we put in place. Then the whole country becomes hostile to the US for generations to come.
We did this repeatedly in both South America and Middle East, and we have no intention of stopping any time soon.
Vietnam is just an example of this. South Korea is a somewhat successful example, I guess. At least they haven't revolted against our rule. I guess we haven't pushed Koreans far enough yet.
The above summed up nicely in this clip over the Spratly Islands dispute, which is a joke.
People need to review East Asian history between 1964 to 1970s to fully understand the islands disputes between China with its neighbors Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. These three disputes are closely related to Post WWII arrangement among allied powers. Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines are taking advantages of China's two governments in split in 1949.
The Diaoyu islands and the Spratly islands were all taken over by Republic of China's (now Taiwan) troops from Japan in 1946. The entire taking-over process was sanctioned by the allied powers and observed by the US military at the time. And taking over process had very solid legal basis in the Allied declaration of 1943 (at Cairo) and Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender of 1945( at Postsdam).
The thing is that, after the ROC lost the civil war to the Communists and fled to Taiwan in 1949, the US somewhat began to back out from her previous position that those islands belongs to China. The reason is simple that the US did not believe the Republic of China(taiwan) can safeguard those islands and eventually those islands would fall into Chinese communists' hands.
Fortunately there are so many legal documents, pictures, ex-military plans regarding allied arrangement of those islands in the hands of the ROC (Taiwan). We have very very strong cases in those island disputes and are not afraid of any legal challenges in whatever international courts. But mainland China and Taiwan need to cooperate on these issues. Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines are clearly taking advantage of the split between mainland China and Taiwan