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    -Moves goalposts the entire time and refuses to admit that the US has power over the people of South Korea

    -baselessly claims I’m a liar for touching grass and talking to people who have been directly impacted by what I’m talking about

    Lol

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        Building dependency, by which the US maintains an important foothold on East Asian soil.

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            By providing aid and by engineering the ROK during its founding. Pretty simple stuff.

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              We’re talking about South Korea not having wartime control of the army right now, not during the founding.

              How is US pressuring South Korea not to have wartime control of their army, right now?

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                Are you legitimately trying to argue that history has no bearing on current conditions? Lmao.

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                  You’re dodging now. South Korea isn’t there same dictatorship now as it once was and had multiple, multiparty governments, all of which elected democratically since 1980s.

                  The US has had peactime control of the Korean military until unilaterally given the peacetime control to ROK in 1994. In 2000’s, they have had discussions then for ROK to also have wartime control of the army, but then delayed due to North Korean posturing. This has been delayed yet again in 2015. If you read the article I linked or know the actual history, you would know that. So now, why is there still delay and why do you think US pressure has to do with it? How is the US doing this, even though in 2015 the Obama administration has gotten frustrated with the delay?

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                    The ROK was built by the US, and modeled as they saw fit. You’re making the same argument that the US constitution doesn’t impact modern American life, because George Washington is dead. That’s a fallacy, it hasn’t been restructured in any meaningful capacity.

                    Yes, the ROK has peacetime control. They don’t have wartime control, despite posturing. The US still keeps the ROK on a leash, and is waiting for the time when they don’t even need to directly control the ROK as they will be subservient regardless.

                    You really love Imperialism, I guess.