“It’s the weirdest thing,” says David Santoro, president of the Pacific Forum think tank in Honolulu, who added that even most Hawaii residents have no idea their state is technically adrift of the alliance.
Hawaiian surfers went to sleep last night feeling very similar feelings to those felt the day before and the day before and the day before. Namely, a sense of languid calm. Life, on the islands, moves at its own pace. Wake up, grind some loco moco, check the waves, grind some Spam musubi, check the waves, grind a mai tai, check the waves, go to bed. The sun shines during the day, generally, the wind blows warm, generally, the flowers smell floral, generally, before they are cut, strung and whipped around tourist necks.
Ahhhh.
Well, sorry. Tomorrow might be very different. See: bombs raining down from foreign powers whilst the free world shrugs her shoulders and says, “sorry ’bout it, kingdom.”
Ouchh.
Per CNN:
Sweden became the newest member of NATO earlier this month, joining 31 nations in the security alliance, including the United States. Well, make that 49 of the 50 United States.
Because in a quirk of geography and history, Hawaii is not technically covered by the NATO pact.
If a foreign power attacked Hawaii – say the US Navy’s base at Pearl Harbor or the headquarters of the Indo-Pacific Command northwest of Honolulu – the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would not be obligated to rise to the Aloha State’s defense.
“It’s the weirdest thing,” says David Santoro, president of the Pacific Forum think tank in Honolulu, who added that even most Hawaii residents have no idea their state is technically adrift of the alliance.
Heavy.
Slash weird.
And should Hawaiian surf heavies forbid the paddle of every European/American interlopers until Hawaii’s flank is covered?
I’m very much on the side of “yes.”
Ish.
The islands, as mainland Americans often forget, is the only united state to taste foreign rage when imperial Japan drilled Pearl Harbor.
So?
Where you at re. NATO?
Scared?
Well, if yes, you must listen to the latest offering from David Lee Scales and yours truly. Stop your rudeness and just give it a try.
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Mind u, the US is likely to disintegrate from within due to civil wars, drugs, crime, or as on display here, a lack of understanding of the world beyond chanting ‘U-S-A’ on demand due to lack of higher education, much like healthcare, being too expensive for most..
A country without healthcare, education, polluting more per person than any on earth.. Yes, how we long to have a future controlled by that sort of p(e)ace.
Prior to 1917 , the very end of WW1, the US had 300,000 soldiers, total.
It had literally never been at war, and during WW1 and WW2 mainly cashed in on the wars by selling arms (still very good at that..) and being thousands of miles from the nearest trench.
Which is the only reason the US was able to arise post-WW2 as a superpower was due to Europe in financial and structural ruins, and its geographic location, not because it had been the foundation of anything until then.
So, Nato was founded, not as a US-babysitting corp, but to be able to fend of Soviet-China attacks in any direction.
And now again Im not sure if u know the situation down in Africa and South/central America, the middle east (entirely), …all not so fond of Americans… and are Soviet-China-anybody but the US friendly..
Long story short, ..for reasons from outwards and within.. the US needs allies, regardless of its current position as ‘number 1’.
I don’t want to intepret this as some sort of drug fueled homoerotic experience for Chas as the visual is troubling but I have to go with it for now.
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You guys are missing the point here as Chas was beaten up over there and now he wants NATO to use this leverage to protect himself and other haoles when they spend time in Hawaii.
It’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Hawaii is in the Pacific. Duh..
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I’m sure all those uber-tough north-shore locals will know what to do against nuclear subs arriving. Nothing a bit of MMA wont fix..
Hawai’ians … tropical rednecks disguised as natives of an ‘ ocean tribe’..what would we be without them..
The US has the most financial debt (35 trillion buckaroos), by miles of any country on earth. As corrupt as it understands ‘money’ is simply borrowed everywhere, not generated on soil (besides printing dollars willy-nilly to keep up with cash demand), and worried about later..
Which is why right next to all the shiny make-belief, the US is borderline a 3rd world country on the brink of a total collapse of ‘church and state’.
you’re an idiot
Not if you’re giving me the reaction I was hoping for.
“I meant to do that!” a Pee Wee said.
LOL! A Pee Wee? I’m backing it. Yes, my original statement was intended to bother people (potentially on both sides of the political spectrum). A reply like “You’re an idiot” comes from someone provoked. Not from someone in on the joke.
YOS: No it wasn’t.
it was just a really dumb attempt to take a whack at Trump and try to in some extremely abstract way, tie it to the article as you often do……..and it failed….again.
a joke if you have to explain it, is not a joke.
what is hilarious is how deep Trump is embedded in your brain, Rachel.
NATO’s just a washing machine that’s completely outdated and unnecessary.
let the Euro panhandlers pay for their own protection.
NATO don’t surf !
The japs invaded the Aleutians too chas. Maybe a certain mainland american forgot about Alaska?
If you want to put it that way, the US military is just a social system with a 4 year waiting period to get benefits.
It wouldn’t end well..just ask the Japanese.
You NATO da rulezzzz!!!….
Considering that the native Hawaiian people originally came from Taiwan via Tahiti (and numerous other Pacific islands along the way) it’s probably only right that their Chinese cousins move in and take over before long.
Over here in NZ it’s unfortunate that many (most ?) of my own Maori peoples can’t accept that we’re actually of Asian (and now Euro) origin ourselves.
Perhaps the Hawaiians will embrace it and secede from the U.S. to become Chinese.
I wonder what DanesS&SSauza (or his local Chumash brothers) would have to say about it ?
And what implications could it have for future Olympic selections ?
Just to clarify a bit, the indigenous Taiwanese weren’t chinese. But if you go back far enough we’re all African.
And here I thought I was just a Scandinavian and Eurotrash mutt.
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he would say some random quote about a WWii movie with Jane Mansfield, and also something about the kebab he’s currently eating
THIS is really upsetting me as we need dane’s commentary and of course a better understanding of why Chas chose this revelation? Is Chas still upset about his beatdown in Hawaii and now is the time to use the NATO card to gain protection for Haoles in Hawaii?
Languid. The word lexicon is admirable. #golfclap
Hawaii is fucked. If it was a bridge, alphabet people, Israel or Ukraine, Lahaina would/could totally been fixed.
Why would HI be in NATO when Dark Brandon hates the place. Not sure if the Orange Godzilla cares for it either. Super fucked stuff.
I love how Chas’s day in a life in Hawaii include surf checks, eating, and drinking without surfing. So good.
The Islands are part of the US. They will be protected as much as the mainland.
Side note-Any idea of succession or independence is tomfoolery.
Protected yes but also made a target by its protector. Inevitable reality I guess. A lot of other islands have it way worse
..at best a bait-trap. To ‘attack’ these islands would only serve to draw fleets away from the westcoast. So no, hawaii would not be defended at any cost due to its ‘widely open to attacks’ position center ocean.
I’m of the belief this is being used as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Hawaiin natives over their treatment of haoles. Chas is the posterchild for haoles who have been beaten up
This explains the “fake” missile attack from a few years ago.
Letting the ungrateful Mokes know who is really in charge.
Maybe this is in response to how they treat haole tourists?