Hegseth to visit Philippines and Japan in first visit to Asian treaty allies at odds with China

Weapons, security, and protection for sale.

HercolobusToday 06:10 am JST

Weapons, security, and protection for sale.

A good deal if you can get it. Unfortunately no one knows the depths of the cowardice in this administration.

Ask this Fox News guy where's Japan's backlog of $50 billion worth of war toyz ? Is trump going to stiff Japan like he did his contractors in NY?

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Don't have the slightest faith in Hegseth and still think he's unqualified, but at least he's following the gamebook correctly.

Good to have someone in Defense ready to disrupt. SOD Hegseth anxious to work with Musk and DOGE, both from an efficiency standpoint and an innovation standpoint = SMART, not biz as usual $Corruption

Even better, he has war fighter and academic credentials and can handle the media well, nice upgrade for USA!

Even MAGA regime fears the unstoppable growth of Mother China..

I am not optimistic about the consequences of meetings with Hegseth, someone so obviously unqualified for the position given to him by the felon in the White House.

Apparently, US citizens very optimistic about new leadership of SOD Hegseth and DJT.

Military recruitment was Historically terrible just six months ago and now it's Historically the best in decades

I’m afraid we are going to need confirmation of these statements.

The walls have often closed in on your claims in the past.

‘Historically the best in decades’. Very erm…unusual way of putting it.

TokyoLivingToday  11:37 am JST

Even MAGA regime fears the unstoppable growth of Mother China..

Unstoppable growth, meaning record depopulation and aging, along with a collapsing real estate market caught in a deflationary spiral?

Maybe not so 'scary' after all, as Xi's the one traveling to DC, because reciprocal tariffs set to hammer China. Xi's becoming less popular by the day as China flails.

Asia busy aligning with DJT US led leadership, in areas of military and national security = strength in numbers

"When jobs are plentiful on the outside, as was the case late in the Biden years, recruitment gets more difficult,"

"All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”

FACT CHECK: Mostly false

Armed services recruitment rose from 200,000 in fiscal year 2023 to 225,000 in fiscal year 2024, a 12.5% increase, under the Biden administration.

The U.S. Army made changes to boost recruitment during the Biden administration, including rolling out a prep course to help lower-performing recruits meet standards.

Military experts said it’s too early to say how President Donald Trump has or hasn’t influenced military recruitment six weeks into his term. The administration did not provide data to back the claim about what has happened under Trump.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/mar/11/donald-trump/military-recruitment-is-up-donald-trump-joe-biden/

Xi's becoming less popular by the day as China flails

What source are you working from here?

DJT and SOD Hegseth have announced record recruitment, far higher than Biden Admin's recent numbers which are VERY Low Historically over 4 years.

US military Recruitment 'catalyst' started Nov 5th, so it's ample time to analyze the data, Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb all spiking vs. prior year. Leadership matters, everyone remembers Biden's Afghanistan tragic withdrawal failure

SOD Hegseth and DJT getting results = elections matter!

"We've seen momentum unlike anything we've [had] in a decades," said Gen. James Mingus, the Army's vice chief of staff, at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, March 12 -- when he disclosed that five months into its recruiting year the Army had already signed up close to 73% of the year's annual goal of 61,000 recruits.

Trump has only been the president for 62 days.

"We've seen momentum unlike anything we've [had] in a decades," said Gen. James Mingus, the Army's vice chief of staff, at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, March 12 -- when he disclosed that five months into its recruiting year the Army had already signed up close to 73% of the year's annual goal of 61,000 recruits.

Let's get ready to more lies by the warmongering apparatus of the US administration.

No surprises he is going to the Philippines, to build up more manipulative narrative against China. He has got the blessing of the big US industrial military complex and the investors of Wall Street

With an incompetent, delusional ideologue at the helm, I am not optimistic for the future of the American military, nor, for that matter, the American nation.

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And keep him off Mabini Street !

No apparent concern about the "war " in Gaza.

No apparent concern about the "war " in Gaza.

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