The United States began a large military exercise with South Korea involving thousands of troops Monday while also waging an escalating war in the Middle East.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has said about 18,000 Korean troops will take part in Freedom Shield, which runs through March 19. U.S. Forces Korea hasn’t confirmed the number of American troops participating in the training in South Korea.
The allies’ combined exercise comes amid South Korean media speculation that Washington is relocating some assets from South Korea to support fighting against Iran.
18 Comments
Bullerfar@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 176d
Remember when they told Zelenskjy he was gambling with world war lll? Laughable.
MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 176d
Basic projection they’re known to practice.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · -3 pts · 175d
Because he was demanding NATO fight Russia
Bullerfar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
That is in no way shape of form of what he said.
lnxtx@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 176d
North Korea is next? But they have (presumably) nuclear weapon already.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 176d
It's almost like the US is goading China into a war
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 176d
If I were writing the video game script that Hegseth is clearly plagiarizing, it'd be a move to knock NK out before they can start launching end-the-world fireworks. You can save a bunch of interceptors by taking them out while they're still on the ground and, most importantly to one person, it'd be a message to the world that not even nuclear powers are safe. One of his apocalypse-craving pals could bait him into it by saying that the American public thinks he's too afraid to launch the attack.
hoch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
These happen like every year. It's nothing special.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 175d
Nothingburger of an article.
This isn't a new thing.
I know this is the first time a lot of you guys are actually paying attention to what's happening in the world.
But this is a common occurrence.
miseducator@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
They do it every year at this time and NoKo gets pissed off every year at this time.
Drusas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 175d
I'm one of those people who have been paying attention, and your comment is unhelpful and self-aggrandizing.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
My two bestest qualities.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 176d
I wonder how hard it is to set up things like this, and how long it takes from concept to boots on the practice ground.
Maragato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
"NO TO WAR" "NO A LA GUERRA"
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 176d
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Hawke@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 176d
You missed. Your target is over here: https://lemmy.world/post/44020543
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 176d
Wtf? I definitely posted it under the other news. I opened this page like 2 tiles after???
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 176d
Must've been the Iranians.