New reports from South Korea’s Yonhap news agency suggest President-elect Donald Trump is already reneging on one of his key campaign promises, to make nations like South Korea pay more of the cost for their own defense or face the loss of US troops.
Sources quoted by the news agency say that Trump called South Korean President Park Guen-hye today and promised her that he will not withdraw US troops and will continue the US security commitment to South Korea exactly as it currently exists.
Trump had made the US spending too much money defending other nations a centerpiece of his campaign, complaining that rich nations like Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia have more than enough money to pay for their own defense, and that the US should be willing to withdraw its support if financial compensation wasn’t forthcoming.
This was a major concern for South Korea’s government, indeed, as they called an “emergency meeting” after Trump’s victory this morning, and South Korea’s stock market dropped on concerns that they’d have to increase defense spending to make up for the change in US policy. If the reports are accurate, those changes aren’t coming.
He is not president yet and he already intervenes with foreign policy? I don’t believe that. Quoting reuters that have an Rothschild-memorial in their garden is quite funny.
The King is dead, (barry) Long live the King (Donald) the power center has moved and you have to move with it At this moment the only thing he discuss’s is the book “advance’.
The Donald will be doing plenty of reneging except regarding his loyalty to Israel.
The article is silly. So are all the whiners in financial markets. Did anybody expect that a president that is proposing new principles in financial arrangements between allies would do anything withouth consultations, fielding proposals, etc? Media is getting dumber by the day. Sure babies — Trump did not take the Office of the president and thus — be assured there is nothing he csn do. After he takes office conversation can start. It may take some time but gradually South Korea will be investing more in its defence. Or it msy choose that the threat is not quite as big — as it was when US paid for it.
” Trump had made the US spending too much money defending other nations a
centerpiece of his campaign, complaining that rich nations like Japan,
South Korea, and Saudi Arabia have more than enough money to pay for
their own defense, and that the US should be willing to withdraw its
support if financial compensation wasn’t forthcoming.”
Now Trump is reversing his assertions that the US was spending too much money in Afghanistan.