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.
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.