Why do major economies like Japan and South Korea, critically dependent on Persian Gulf oil, refuse to deploy naval power to protect their own supply lines?
Decades of total security reliance have paralyzed their strategic initiative. Both nations have grown accustomed to sheltering under the U.S. defense umbrella. Without long-standing American military bases in Okinawa and South Korea, regional deterrence against North Korea would have crumbled decades ago.
The blunt reality of global power politics is clear: nations that act as passive bystanders and outsource their security inevitably forfeit their strategic autonomy. Even Trump's doctrine questions why Washington must indefinitely shoulder the security burden of capable allies.
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