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If Japan would just spend 3% of GDP on defense they would have a 300 ship navy with 6 Carrier Battle Groups, 1,200 advanced fighters, 100 long-range strike bombers and a deployable Marine force of 250,000 professional soldiers.

With all the associated accoutrements.

Doesn't look to me like they need us for anything except as a market.

1 posted on 05/06/2016 5:33:33 PM PDT by Mariner
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Yep. I bet he did. What chumps we’ve been.


2 posted on 05/06/2016 5:35:33 PM PDT by major-pelham
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David Brunnstrom, this is the guy that is trying to start a war with Japan....we are fine with Japan and Trump has no problem with Japan, just like he doesn’t have a problem with China, the problem Trump has is with the idiots that make these trade deals, and the problem I have is with this idiot and those like him that are writing articles like this and the people that post them trying to start a ‘flame war’ where there isn’t one...

(I said in one breath!!!)


3 posted on 05/06/2016 5:37:47 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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4 posted on 05/06/2016 5:38:14 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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We still have Enola Gay laying around. In great shape too.


5 posted on 05/06/2016 5:38:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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Japan’s debt to gdp is about 230% and has been over 100% (considered the tipping point for a currency) for nearly 20 years.

They need the US and it’s trade deficit. They’re in too weak a position to go anywhere near a trade war with the US. Tariffs would kill them.


7 posted on 05/06/2016 5:40:01 PM PDT by Vic S
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There’s a new sheriff in town.....


8 posted on 05/06/2016 5:40:43 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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I suspect all foreign nations are unhappy with the “America First” theme of the campaign. They have been getting a free ride for many years. How many have ever said thank you America. Has Europe ever acknowledged that Americans rebuilt Europe after WWII at the expense of ruining many American industries?

This isn’t isolationism - it is self preservation!!


9 posted on 05/06/2016 5:41:48 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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10 posted on 05/06/2016 5:42:44 PM PDT by Vic S
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I couldn’t get past a Japanese criticizing anyone else for putting their country first. The Japanese are the greatest xenophobes on Earth. Even worse than the Germans.


12 posted on 05/06/2016 5:43:13 PM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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” Japan’s Minister for Regional Revitalization, Shigeru Ishiba, said comments by one candidate, who he said he would not name, were causing “a lot of concern in Japan.”

I know, Shiberu, we’re concerned about red colonel Bernie Sanders too.


14 posted on 05/06/2016 5:45:06 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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The world has been playing us for suckers aided by corrupt US “public servants.”

They have been sucking our jobs and wealth. Both are massively depleted.


15 posted on 05/06/2016 5:45:20 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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Japan????

You mean the Isolationist country that had to be forced by Admiral Perry to trade with other nations

You mean the island that raped Nanking, attacked Pearl Harbor, and beheaded POW’s because they considered them an inferior race?

Japan, of the Bataan Death March?

Japan, who, to this day will not apologize for the widespread enslavement and abuse of the Chinese and Korean “Comfort Women”?

Japan, who will not accept ANY immigrants?

That Japan?

Not trying to be spiteful or anything...just askin’.


16 posted on 05/06/2016 5:46:23 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Isn’t Caroline Kennedy over there in the capacity of an Ambassador? Something tells me she has something to do with Japan sticking their nose in our election this way.

Of all nations who should be elated that obama is on his way out, near the top of the list is Japan. China is a rising power in the region, and a strong and free America would surely benefit Japan.

Plus, it is out of character for them to interfere this way.


17 posted on 05/06/2016 5:49:04 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Sure, we should allow Japan and Europe and all other counties to determine who should be President of the US, and we most certainly should not elect someone who actually want to put America first. (/sarc)

I hope the voters are paying attention and are figuring it out.

It’s about time we have a president who puts America’s interests first.


19 posted on 05/06/2016 5:50:30 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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go to a online bumper sticker making company and have a sticker for your cars made that reads :

AMERICA FIRST ! ( Trump’s words)

I have done this . Millions of these should start appearing
all across America . Folks the doors is open . This is our big chance to Take Our Country Back . Trumps leads . It’s up to all of us to follow his lead and CHARGE !.....

no more pussy footing around


23 posted on 05/06/2016 5:53:35 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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Doesn’t the Japanese ambassador put the interests of Japan first?

Or is he like our current president and secretary of state who put the interests of other countries before those of their own country?


24 posted on 05/06/2016 5:53:45 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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Damn stinking sneak attackers.


25 posted on 05/06/2016 5:54:51 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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Britain, Mexico, China, Japan, etc., are deeply worried at the prospect of NOT BEING ABLE TO RAPE US ANYMORE with Trump at the helm.


26 posted on 05/06/2016 5:57:10 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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When they all start screaming like stuck pigs you know Trump is on the right path. The suck America dry party is coming to an end.


27 posted on 05/06/2016 5:58:52 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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The money the scumbag progressives give out to the world should be reigned in and spent on AMERICANS PERIOD!!!


29 posted on 05/06/2016 5:59:27 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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