Comment on If America didn't have 11 Aircraft Carriers. by sacredcow

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''China invades it neighbors and provokes with its "navy of civilian fishermen".  
  
...and anti-Americans go out of their way to ignore it; ROK doesn't.

''North Korea fucks with everyone.''  
  
KJU is kinda like Trump; ''Any publicity, so long as publicity''   That's their way of gaining leverage, that they are there, to be ready to rumble.  So don't ignore them; they are relevant.

''Japan wants islands back from Russia.''  
  
It wasn't their land to begin with.  Even Hokkaido wasn't their land; they took it from the natives by force, kinda like Americans!

''Russia and China don't agree on who owns what land.''  
  
It's more than that; Russia is fully aware of the aggressive intention by Chinese regarding the Russian Far East.   Their greatest fear is China forming an alliance with Japan on this.   They know that it's unlikely with PRC, but with ROC/Taiwan/KMT?    Japanese militarists were not a single monolithic block; some of the Japanese militarists were very Pro-ROC/KMT before and during the Sino-Japanese war.  Some of the IJA actually fought for ROC/KMT against PLA after the Sino-Japanese war, and some other IJA had fought on the side of PLA against ROC/KMT not just after the Sino-Japanese war, but also during the Chinese Civil War before the end of the Sino-Japanese war!   Your assumption regarding this is very naive.   As many as 1,000 IJA officers had got fraked by their own men during the Sino-Japanese war!   Japan during WW2 was not a totalitarian dictatorship, but a military anarchy.  
  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek#Education_in_Japan  
  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_Ishiwara#Return_to_Manchukuo_and_disgrace  
  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Okamura#Post-war_life  
  
Why Russia/Putin was/is interested in helping ROK to become strong: He, too, wants an ally against the looming threat of Sino-Japanese alliance against the Russian Far East.   Why ROK also wants an alliance with Russia/Putin: U.S. is not going to be staying in Asia forever, especially considering how they have been going downhill since 90s.  ROK, and DPRK as well want an ally, against the looming threat of Sino-Japanese alliance to come post-PRC.  
  
Why ROK is helping Philippine to become strong, another ally against China, any China, not just PRC, but post-PRC United China, which could be ROC/Taiwan.   Why ROK wants to help Vietnam, India to become strong as well.   Now, you know why ROK does not trust ROC/Taiwan.  
  
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/09/a-korean-expansion-the-future-of-the-philippine-fleet/  
  
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/one-raptor-down-us-f-22-loses-air-battle-to-new-dog-fa-50/#google_vignette  
  
ROK will replace U.S. after U.S. leaves Philippine.  
  
Stealth fighters are over-rated.   Non-Stealth fighters have a significant advantage over the stealth fighters in close range, visual dogfight, due to internal bay of the stealth fighter making it less maneuverable than the external bay of the non-stealth fighters.  
  
It's due to less concentrated weight in the COG of the stealth fighters, due to the hollowness of the internal weapons bay; I found this out by watching the interviews of ROKAF pilots who had flown both FA-50, and KF-21 version 1, and F-35, in an interview with one of the ROK military channels.   You might wonder why ROKAF would allow such an interview.  Because of that KIDA, spreading garbage, ROKAF had to defend their position why KF-21 version had to be no internal weapons bay.   They also had to point out the vaunted F-35 stealth capability was not all that, non-stealth after heating the mach, due to the soft stealth panel, which has to be replaced every time after hitting mach.   KF-21 will not have such issues.   U.S. not allowing ROKAF access to F-35 ROK bought and paid for, on demand, in real time!   No such bs with KF-21.   Of course, me understanding Korean gives me such access to information very few people in U.S. have, certainly not in general public.  
  
Yes, I know far more than you, and other MIC fanboys.  
  
''I don't see how Asia will become united.

India, Pakistan and China are at a soft war now.''  
  
U.S. will leave by 2050; PRC would implode as well.   Time for crisis and opportunity, especially for ROK.    Do you think U.S. would support ROK, against Post-PRC united China, and Japan?

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