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       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2023, 1:35 am
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  HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/okinawa-ryukyu-prefecture-front-line-093000385.html
       [quote]Okinawan governor Denny Tamaki - who has long objected to
       US military bases - visits China from Monday.
       ...
       According to People's Daily, the Communist Party's mouthpiece,
       Xi spoke of exchanges between the former tributary state to
       China and the province of Fujian, where he used to be governor.
       "When I was working in Fuzhou, I was aware of the Ryukyu-kan
       [diplomats' house] and the Ryukyu cemetery there, and that
       Fujian had a deep connection with Ryukyu," he said.
       "There were 36 clans from Fujian [that] moved and settled in
       Ryukyu," he said, referring to a mass migration event in the
       14th century.
       A few days later, Tamaki told the media he interpreted the
       remarks as Xi having "very deep insight into history and
       culture".
       "I take [Xi's statement] as an indication of his willingness to
       develop future exchanges," he said.
       ...
       With a strategic location in the first island chain, Ryukyu was
       an important trade hub between ancient China and Japan.
       Okinawa now hosts more than 70 per cent of US military forces in
       Japan. Its affiliated island is just 110km (68 miles) from
       Taiwan.
       ...
       Denny Tamaki, however, has long opposed the US military bases on
       the island, accusing them of bringing negative impacts to
       locals. He also criticised the new defence strategy.
       On June 23, the 78th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa - one
       of the bloodiest campaigns of the Pacific War in which one out
       of four local civilians was killed - Tamaki issued his own peace
       declaration, calling for the easing of tensions and building of
       mutual trust with other countries and regions in the
       Asia-Pacific region.
       "[The defence build-up in Okinawa] and the memories of the
       fierce ground battle has triggered great concern among the
       residents and peaceful diplomacy through dialogue is being
       demanded," Tamaki said in the document.
       ...
       In the lead-up to his trip to China, Tamaki told the media he
       would like to convey to the Chinese side "that we trust each
       other and want to continue our mutually beneficial
       relationship".
       ...
       After meeting Chinese leaders and economic officials in Beijing,
       Tamaki will head to Okinawa's "twin province" Fujian in
       southeastern China to discuss economic and people exchanges with
       local officials, according to Japanese media.[/quote]
       If only the US would withdraw its military, everything would be
       so much simpler.....
       Woke comments:
       [quote]Support activists like Robert Kajiwara who was unfairly
       detained by the U.S military occupation in Okinawa.
       It's time to #DemilitirizeAndDecolonizeThePacific[/quote]
       [quote]how many military bases the US has in the world.  By the
       way, all of this cost a lot of money annually.[/quote]
       [quote]Don't try to pretend that Japan is not occupied.[/quote]
       #Post#: 21896--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 4, 2023, 7:38 pm
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/japans-top-court-orders-okinawa-094239589.html
       [quote]Japan's top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive
       government plan to build US military runways
       TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Okinawa's
       rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine
       Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to
       approve it despite protests by locals who oppose the American
       troops' presence.[/quote]
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       #Post#: 22047--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: rp Date: September 11, 2023, 1:48 am
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  HTML https://twitter.com/TheSyedHaq/status/1701114735846982028?t=HxTC2qDaBb8dpjp0oQe_2Q&s=19
       [quote]
       Never forget when the swine looking soldier called an Iraqi kid
       as the "Ugliest" kid he has ever seen.
       These Satans came in Muslim lands to teach them their "values".
       #September11 #NeverForget
       [/Quote]
       The subhuman in question didn't bother holding up a mirror to
       his own face.
       #Post#: 23056--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 25, 2023, 4:52 pm
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       Finally!
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/armenia-sees-no-advantage-keeping-164658559.html
       [quote]MOSCOW (Reuters) -Armenia sees no advantage in continuing
       to host Russian military bases on its territory after Azerbaijan
       retook the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian
       prime minister told the Wall Street Journal in an interview
       published on Wednesday.
       ...
       Russia's military presence in Armenia includes garrisons in two
       locations and an airbase. Moscow has long seen itself as the
       guarantor of Armenia's security in the volatile South Caucasus,
       a region crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines.[/quote]
       Woke comments:
       [quote]Because of Putin's blunder in Ukraine, the ruzzians
       cannot even project power in their own neighborhood. I expect to
       see many in the neighborhood rising up against Muscovy
       meddling.[/quote]
       [quote]Better to just kick the Russians out, they are nothing
       but trouble.[/quote]
       [quote]Better do it now Russia is weakening by Ukraine[/quote]
       [quote]Russia has their hands full right now.  It may be a good
       time. [/quote]
       [quote]Russians are a cancer that drain the life's blood in
       natural resources from every country they occupy.[/quote]
       [quote]Stop delaying and talking about it and just get rid of it
       already. You know they're bad for your country, they're not
       welcome, just kick them out and be done with it or its gonna be
       hard to remove that cancer up your spleen.[/quote]
       [quote]China will own most of Russia.[/quote]
       #Post#: 26869--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 27, 2024, 4:16 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-soldier-charged-japan-rape-085100762.html
       [quote]Japan condemns ‘intolerable’ US army after soldier
       charged with rape of teenager
       ...
       Okinawa accounts for just 0.6 per cent of Japan’s land mass but
       hosts about 70 per cent of all the US military bases and
       facilities in the country.
       Base-related woes have long grieved Okinawans, from pollution to
       noise and helicopter crashes
       ...
       “The excessive burden of hosting military bases is an everyday
       matter for us, and is intolerable.”[/quote]
       Woke comments:
       [quote]Nothing new, US servicemen forcing themselves onto on
       Okinawan girls has been happening since 1945. Japanese govt
       isn't able tell its colonial master to leave.[/quote]
       [quote]Spawn of Trump[/quote]
       [quote]This evil has been going on for decades.  Get the US
       military out of Japan.[/quote]
       #Post#: 26894--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: army of lynchers Date: June 30, 2024, 3:58 pm
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  HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10150575/japan-us-canada-military-bases-indigenous/
       Indigenous community haunted by U.S., Canadian military presence
       in Japan
       [quote]
       The presence of U.S. military bases on the Japanese island of
       Okinawa, regularly used by Canadian Armed Forces members, is
       coming under criticism from locals who are Indigenous to those
       lands.
       American bases occupy around eight per cent of the prefecture
       and nearly 15 per cent of the main island, causing indignation
       among locals like Zukeran, a former mayor of the city of
       Nanjō, and a past member of the Japanese House of
       Representatives.
       He is calling on the Canadian and U.S. militaries to have a
       conversation about their concerns.
       “Before WWII in 1945, there were no military bases in Okinawa so
       I would like to see Okinawa without military bases; how would
       that be?”
       “Some people say the presence of U.S. or any kinds of military
       bases in Okinawa is protecting Okinawa but we don’t think so.
       The presence of military bases in our island makes us a target,”
       Okinawa International University economics professor Masaki
       Tomochi said.
       Tomochi believes Canada needs to be part of a dialogue about the
       impact of the bases on locals. He points to chemical
       contamination, noise pollution and crimes committed by U.S.
       servicemen.
       “We want our peaceful island back,” Tomochi said, adding, “I
       want Canada not to invade our rights.”
       [/quote]
       #Post#: 27068--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 17, 2024, 6:12 pm
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  HTML https://rmx.new
       s/article/french-soldier-stabbed-by-congolese-migrant-in-paris/
       [quote]A French soldier was stabbed in the back by a
       Congolese-born migrant at the Gare de l’Est in Paris on Monday
       evening.
       The attack occurred shortly before 10 p.m. local time when the
       40-year-old perpetrator drove a knife between the shoulder
       blades of the soldier who was patrolling the French capital as
       part of the Opération Sentinelle counter-terror initiative.
       The attacker was swiftly arrested and remains in custody.
       The victim was escorted by the emergency services to a hospital
       located at the Percy Army Training Center in Clamar
       (Hauts-de-Seine). He is understood to be in a stable condition.
       As cited by the Actu17 news outlet, a source close to the
       ongoing police investigation said the attacker’s motivation for
       the stabbing was retaliation for French military operations in
       his home country.[/quote]
       Thank you for the attempt! Unfortunately the target survived. A
       poisoned knife would have yielded better results.
       #Post#: 27234--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 30, 2024, 1:30 am
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/russias-wagner-group-admits-losses-155922015.html
       [quote]Johannesburg — In a rare acknowledgment, Russia's private
       mercenary army PMC Wagner said Monday that it had suffered heavy
       losses in fighting against a Tuareg rebel alliance in the
       northern part of the African nation of Mali. The state-funded
       "private military company" did not say how many of its fighters
       were killed in a days-long battle near Mali's border with
       Algeria, but videos circulating on social media showed dozens of
       bodies, mostly appearing to be white men.[/quote]
       :)
       [quote]Russia's state-run news agency TASS reported Monday that
       only three of the Russian fighters were believed to have
       survived the battle, and their commander Sergey Shevchenko was
       among those killed in action.
       The Malian army and Wagner fighters are believed to have been
       conducting operations for several months in a bid to gain
       control over the country's border with Algeria. The Taureg
       militias remain in control of parts of the border region, but
       militants affiliated with the JNIM organization, an alliance of
       al-Qaeda aligned groups, also operate there.
       Videos posted on social media show the bodies of men, most of
       them white, lying in sand with Tuareg rebels talking and looting
       personal effects in the background, as well as destroyed
       vehicles and a downed helicopter.[/quote]
       :)
       [quote]The Tuareg rebel alliance in the area — known as the
       Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and
       Development (CSP-DSA) — said in a Saturday statement that it had
       seized armoured vehicles and tanks in the fighting at
       Tinzaouaten Thursday and Friday.
       Spokesman Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane said in a Facebook post
       that after two days of intense fighting, the CSP-DSA had
       "inflicted heavy losses of human life with dozens of dead and
       injured," with forces still "chasing down enemy troops on the
       road" to nearby Kedal.
       ...
       Russian mercenaries have acting as guns for hire on the African
       continent since 2017, when they were first brought in to work in
       the Central African Republic.
       Images and video posted to social media accounts run by the
       Tuaregs, Wagner and other local militias indicated that a convoy
       of Malian army and allied Wagner forces may have been ambushed
       by Tuareg rebels who used an IED to stop the group followed, by
       an intense small-arms assault. A sandstorm appears to have added
       to the chaos of the battle.
       Reports suggest the retreating government and Wagner forces were
       then attacked again and suffered further losses.[/quote]
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       [quote]Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have all had military coups
       over the last few years and turned to Russian mercenaries to
       bolster their own forces after kicking out French
       troops.[/quote]
       Woke comments:
       [quote]A Russian mercenary that is no longer breathing is a good
       mercenary.[/quote]
       [quote]If Mali was willing to share power (and resources) with
       the Tuaregs, then they wouldn't have to pay all that money to
       the Russians.[/quote]
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       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 20, 2024, 5:55 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-china-preparing-attack-japan-190000131.html
       [quote]Opinion - Is China preparing to attack Japan?
       ...
       the U.S. and Japan should remove China’s temptation to attack
       them pre-emptively. They should harden bases and port defenses,
       disperse U.S. and allied forces across the Japanese islands and
       the Philippines, and augment joint air and missile
       defenses.[/quote]
       So I checked the author:
       [quote]Dan Blumenthal is a senior fellow at American Enterprise
       Institute.[/quote]
       ::)
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       Woke comments:
       [quote]Another fake story?[/quote]
       [quote]I haven't heard a single person predict China is going to
       attack Japan anytime soon[/quote]
       [quote]Ridiculous. No supporting evidence. Bad journalism. Scare
       mongering click bait.[/quote]
       [quote]Note to self, steer  clear of any article written by Dan
       Blumenthal, opinion contributor[/quote]
       #Post#: 31884--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Military decolonization
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 4, 2026, 5:25 pm
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  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGuL_ZcAyl8
       Woke comments:
       [quote]it's known to all that Japan 🇯🇵 is an
       American colony . Since the end of world war ll and the presence
       of American troops on Japanese soil .[/quote]
       [quote]The Plazza Accords ruined Japan's economy with
       consequences felt for decades, just because US industry felt
       threatened by Japanese competition. 30 years of stagnation were
       the price paid for being a vassal state of Aemrica. In some way,
       the US destroyed Japan twice, in the 40's and the 80's, and will
       not hesitate to sacrifice it a third time.[/quote]
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