Posted on 07/31/2024 12:45:19 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc
Three groups of Russian nuclear-capable bombers and fighter escorts buzzed the airspace in Japan's northern waters on Tuesday one week after similar long-range sorties near the U.S. coast off Alaska.
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Russia needs to stop poking the bear ...
I read Japan intends to host a US strategic center to counter China.
Russia must be suicidal. Pissing off the Japanese will only lead to bad news for Russia in the future.
You want Japan to become a Nuclear Power? Because, this is how you get Japan to become a Nuclear Power.
So Russian planes, went around the territory of a neighboring country out in the pacific. In other news, I walked down the sidewalk today and did not intrude into the yard of my neighbors.
I think China is now powerful enough to stop that. You need time to build nukes and delivery systems. Time that has run out.
Odd Headline
Before last week they weren’t flying around at all at least not in a manner that made news.
Japan’s reaction to the Russian invasion in Europe was to embark on it’s largest military build-up since WWII.
There’s some real hyperventilating going on here. This was over the sea of Japan. Japan is on one side, Russia is on the other, and both north and South Korea are on the south. Russia took off, went feet wet on their side, never crossed into Japanese airspace.
Clearly they are spoiling for war with Japan. We never fly right up to and along their 12 mile limit.
Thankfully we have MSN, that conservative outlet to point this aggression out.
That’s been happening over the sea of Japan since the 1950s. Both sides.
I highly doubt your assessment has any accuracy at all.
I’m of the opinion that the very highly skilled and technical Japanese can have nukes ready for use within 7-14 calendar days.
They have everything they need already on hand. Uranium? Check! Plutonium? Check! All the necessary components for a warhead? Check! (not currently assembled, but I have little doubt that such contingency plans have been readied long ago)
I could certainly be wrong. Chinese aggression, along with North Korea, has likely had Japan on notice long ago that they better be prepared. Russia joining in could be the trigger to set their plans in motion.
Could you imagine Japan announcing they have decided to become a Nuclear Power one day later this year?
a few other things going on in Japan today
you sure that stuff isn’t still in that trashed nuclear reactor?
Besides, you wouldn't just leave it there if you could still safely access it, as they can in other reactors. What happens to their Plutonium by-product? Likely handed over to some regulatory agency based outside of Japan, but they probably squirreled enough away for a rainy day.
All speculation, but it's certainly a path I would consider if I were in their shoes.
They probably have the technical capability, and the manufacturing know how to do it quickly. Politically, it would be impossible for them. Japan and Germany will never have a bomb.
“That’s been happening over the sea of Japan since the 1950s. Both sides.”
Many articles and some books about both sides doing what you noted have been published for decades.
“Cold War Spooks” by Tony Seidel, is an excellent example.
I would hope Germany doesn’t. Hard to say what the EU would do since Germany has so much financial leverage.
If Germany tries to build one, Russia will nuke them straight out. Russia will never allow a German bomb. Neither will the rest of Europe and the Germans people. As for Japan, they’re really smart. They can do math. There’s no way they can build an arsenal sufficient to deter China North Korea and Russia. But most of all, they are completely under the protection of the United States arsenal. Japan has no reason to build a bomb and they know it. They would just conclude agreements to give us more basis, and more of a presence. Much cheaper, much smarter.
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