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Japan lifts a longtime restriction to allow a major defense buildup
https://www.wwno.org ^ | December 16, 2022 | y Anthony Kuhn

Posted on 12/16/2022 4:43:37 AM PST by RomanSoldier19

TOKYO — Japan has made a significant policy change to allow it to get the ability to strike other nations, a move widely seen as a major step toward rearming the nation more than seven decades since it demilitarized after World War II.

As Japan's relations with China worsen and the threat it perceives from its much larger neighbor heightens, the Japanese government gave a green light Friday to proposals it has been debating sporadically since at least 1956.

Japan had avoided obtaining strike capabilities, so as not to violate Japan's post-war constitution, which renounces the right — and the means — to wage war, and to avoid provoking its neighbors.

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To: Cronos
No.

It's not our problem, let Europe deal with it.

We have major issues at home and below our sh*tty southern border.

Screw Russia and Ukraine.

21 posted on 12/22/2022 3:55:23 AM PST by NativeSon ( *> <*)
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To: NativeSon

It would become our problem later. Just like Munich in 1938 was a wag to end Hitler’s threat with minimal cost, this is a way yo end Pooptin threat


22 posted on 12/22/2022 6:14:05 AM PST by Cronos (.)
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