I'm John Datshe with Cleopascal of the Foundation for the Defensive Democracies, publishing

most recently her conversation with the Governor of Guam, Guerrero, Lou Guerrero.

What is to be done?

Part of it is to organize beforehand, before the worst case scenario of PLA Navy overrunning

Guam.

I mentioned that for many years now, I've been aware that the military is preparing

for worst case scenarios.

At one point, practicing, not only occupying Guam again, but taking it back from invaders.

So it's quite realistic to the military to practice this, but right now, what can be

done is organization.

What is the Micronesian Island Forum, Cleo?

So this region, this northern Pacific region, and one really should specify that the

term South Pacific refers to Pacific Island countries below the equator.

So the regional we're talking about is not South Pacific.

It's the northern Pacific, or the central Pacific, if you want to call it that.

And this region, that stretches from the Marianas, which is about just kind of below Japan,

the Marianas, which is part of the United States, shares a maritime border with Japan.

It goes from there down through Guam, then down along the Second Island chain to Palau,

which is just behind the Philippines.

And then it travels east through the Federated States of Micronesia, which replaces like

YAP, or Tric, if you know your truck, if you know your Second World War history, and then

on to the Marshall Islands, which is where you've got Guadaline, this whole area was part

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