The United States is the hammer, the world is the nail, whoever provokes the United States, the United States will strike whom! That's not all true! No, South Korea was hit by the hammer of the United States.
According to the Global Times, at about 4 a.m. on May 19, US Secret Service personnel beat a South Korean man in his 20s at the entrance of the hotel where US President Biden was staying after drinking. The two American agents who subsequently hit the killer were repatriated.
Once this matter was exposed, it triggered a heated discussion in South Korea.
The focus of the discussion was on why the beater was acquitted by the South Korean police. Don't Koreans want face, don't they want dignity? Are South Korean laws a decoration? Others accused the South Korean media of delaying coverage after the U.S. media reported it, which was "a surrender that did not even dare to squeak."
What makes South Koreans even more angry is that the South Korean police do not dare to easily detain these two American agents, because these two people are the bodyguards of US President Biden, if these bodyguards have an accident, who will protect Biden's personal safety?
Afraid of turning this matter into a diplomatic incident, the South Korean police chose to directly release the two American agents, which shows that in the face of the Americans, South Korea is consciously inferior.
Why is this happening? There are two reasons for this.
One is that South Korea itself has birth defects, which are insecurity.
In ancient history, Korea existed as a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty, and as long as there was turmoil in Korea, it would inevitably send a distress signal to the suzerainty. This history has been passed down to this day and has become part of South Korea's political culture. Now that the United States has become the "suzerainty" of South Korea, South Korea has no right to make demands in the face of the suzerainty, and can only submit to orders.
For example, if the United States asks South Korea to join the Indo-Pacific economic framework, Yoon Seok-wook's government will have to obey the instructions and not dare to disobey the slightest intention. Besides, Yoon Seok-wook himself is a pro-American element, and if he is not pro-American, his wish to make South Korea prosperous again cannot be realized.
The second is that the United States has tied South Korea to its chariot.
Although South Korea is a developed country, its economy, military, and politics are deeply influenced and controlled by the United States. For the United States, South Korea is a pawn of the Indo-Pacific strategy, and it can make it fight for itself with only a little benefit, and the so-called "US-ROK alliance" is just a pretext for people's ears, and its focus is on "the US-ROK alliance but different status."
Judging from these two points, south Korea's desire to gain the right to independence and self-determination and to gain equal status with the United States is by no means an excessive overtone overture to the United States and serve as a strategic pawn of the United States, but to get rid of the dependence of the United States, adhere to the road of "independence and self-determination," and not be inferior to anyone. In this way, you can avoid being humiliated by the Americans.
But it's too hard to do that. On the one hand, South Korea's military command is in the hands of the United States. If South Korea disobeys and does something to expel U.S. troops, then the United States may order South Korean forces to take tough measures, thus plunging South Korea into civil unrest.
On the other hand, south Korea has a strong sense of crisis when the peninsula has not yet been reunified. It needs to use the umbrella of the US military to resist the threat from its northern neighbors.
This time, the president of the United States and South Korea said that to expand the scale of military exercises and deploy more US weapons, it is undoubtedly aimed at its northern neighbors.
Because South Korea's ability can not avoid the pressure of its northern neighbors, he can only get a sense of security through "pro-American" if he can't do it. For South Korea, trying to win over the United States is the only way to achieve its geopolitical security.
But please God is easy to send God hard! No matter how south Korea calculates, it is only a pawn on the US chessboard, and if the United States wants to maintain its interests in the Asia-Pacific region through south Korea's chess piece, it will naturally do whatever it takes, including the possibility of letting South Korea die.
In this case, South Korea has gained the status of "cannon fodder", and it is not surprising that South Koreans have suffered some humiliation. Don't forget, the US government even ignores its own people, allowing the epidemic to kill more than 1 million people, does it still care about the lives of South Koreans?
Therefore, for the Americans, South Korea must remain vigilant, completely break off contact with the United States if possible, and re-choose a reliable backer!