It is kind of puzzling. Obviously there's alot of hypocrisy involved but nothing more complicated that the historical US relationships with South Korea, the Philippines, or Indonesia. And our interests should align, we don't really have competing strategic objectives, unlike with the Soviets. A "Co-Dominion" if you want to look at it like that should have been most likely.

Maybe Red Dawn had it right.

Col. Tanner: Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later they gonna fight. Jed: That simple? Col. Tanner: Maybe somebody just forgot what it was like.