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The defense minister is stepping down

No. Charge him with treason and court martial his traitorous ass.

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Oh so they actually are copying the US.

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Which, in turn, seems to have copied Brazil.

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And Hungary with the media takeover.

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How much leverage does this guy have to survive impeachment after declaring martial-fucking-law for no reason?

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Because its more complicated than him just being a bad guy.

He did a stupid, very bad move, but it was because the CCP-infected, anti-Japan opposition passed a budget that forced his hand, it would have apparently cut all government funding by a ridiculous degree.

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Lmao bro what

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Got a source on that? Google isn’t giving me anything useful

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Reliable news channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gccPFeMJiE

Text of his actual speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/world/asia/president-yoon-speech-martial-law.html Mentioned that their budget cut 4.1 Trillion Won° from things like Disaster Prep and Child Care.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-yoon-suk-yeol-declared-martial-law-in-south-korea-what-does-that-mean/

°Google says that is ~3 billion USD, but this Globe and Mail(note: pro-business extremists) says 4 billion.

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The dude tried to arrest key legislators, including from his own party. This was the world’s worst palace coup.

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Yup. Absolutely.

The context in which he did those actions is critical though.

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He learned lessons from trump

His party learned to become spineless pieces of shit from the US republicans

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His party didn’t show preventing the 2/3 of parliament required for the vote to be held. They are planning on trying again Wed.

So if they show up the vote happens and he probably goes down. If they don’t show up they don’t get to vote on anything.

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Probably the logic of the ruling party: this president is not great, but if we impeach him now there will be elections and a new president will be elected, this time one from the opposition party. Competent president working for the other party might be considered worse than an incompetent and corrupt one.

I am sure they would vote for impeachment if they had real chances of winning the presidential elections.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about Korean politics, except some recent headlines.

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Disclaimer: I know nothing about Korean politics, except some recent headlines.

Same, still I appreciate the attempt to rationalize the situation.

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If history is any indication, he will be reelected.

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This is the weirdest timeline

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The worst timeline

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Enjoy that indefinite general strikes the unions already called

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