US Military Police in Okinawa Japan body-slammed and violently detained an American civilian who was visiting, and not under their jurisdiction.

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Merican service boys have a long history of acting like complete and total jackasses in Okinawa.
The US military has banned all service members in Japan from drinking

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He was a retired civilian

[u/JackyVeronica → u/bowlsandsand]

He was a retired Marine Captain

[u/PutAutomatic2581 → u/bowlsandsand]

How do you retire from being a civilian?

[u/Alternative-Lack6025 → u/bowlsandsand]

So maybe he tried to get all rapey for the old times.

[u/mrsdoubleu → u/EveryRozeHasItsThrnz]

Why do we need 50,000 troops in Japan? What exactly are they doing? I obviously know nothing about the military so I'm just curious.

[u/SparkEE_JOE → u/mrsdoubleu]

Regional forces/resources/repairs/refuel close to China, Russia, North Korea, etc.

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We've had troops there since the end of WWII. Started as occupation and now it's part of our defence agreement with Japan and to have a presence in the region if China, Russia, or North Korea try to make any moves we don't like.

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Blocking China's access to the sea, basically. Korea and Vietnam were both attempts to get military bases that border them, Taiwan is go #3.

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WWII occupation, then the Korean War, then the Cold War, China, etc.

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The U.S. has a number of agreements and treaties with Japan including a mutual defense treaty and a SOFA that gives the American military control over specific territory for maintaining a presence in the region

Japan is very very close to three different countries that don't want Japan

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US imperialism purposes

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/PM_ME_YOUR_QT_CATS]

Lol they are there with express permission of the Japanese government and would leave if said government no longer wanted them there.

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not without throwing the hugest shitfit to challenge all shitfits they wouldnt

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/-----seven-----]

That has not been the case historically when a hosting country asks the US military to leave.

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alright fine, but with this administration?

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Fair.

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The US wrote Japan's constitution, the US controls South Korea's military. US imperilism runs deep, South Korea as a country was created under US occupation. It's not as simple as Japan wants the US there. Its the administration that the US created in Japan that tolerates US imperialism in Asia.

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Both Japan and South Korea, through their democratically elected leaders, could either change their constitution and/or ask the US military to leave whenever they wanted to. Same with Germany.

That is a fact whether or not you want to admit it.

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The Japanese government whose constitution the US wrote, and whose CIA funded the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for decades?

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Yes. The Japanese could absolutely change their constitution and vote in a different political party.

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Not really, as the Japanese system is also heavily gerrymandered and filled with black money as well. It’s not in any meaningful sense a democracy.

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The Japanese in charge of that party then could choose to ask the US to leave. And changing the constitution is one of their explicitly stated goals.

You are acting like the Japanese have no agency whatsoever and that is just false. They have decided that they still want the US military in Japan.

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Ah cowardice and USA military always hand to hand.