Posted on 04/08/2025 1:12:53 PM PDT by McGruff
Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European alliance.
Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani announced his country’s interest during talks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Tokyo. After providing the war-torn country with defense equipment and support, Japan now wants to join NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, or NSATU, headquartered at a U.S. base in the German town of Wiesbaden.
Nakatani said Japan wants to further deepen security cooperation with NATO and that participation in the NSATU mission would help Tokyo learn lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Japan doesnt like Russia. Russia keeps trying to take their islands.
Looks to me like Japan has taken a page out of Trump’s playbook: Create negotiating points out of thin air.
Why do a NATO-like, why not just let them join NATO?
Kinda like a co-prosperity sphere?
Japan can just send 10,000 soldiers to Ukie Land for all I care.
Then go to Hell.
Since when was Japan in the North Atlantic?
The Biden gang was trying to sorta kinda add Japan to NATO. Dumb idea, I thought.
Japan should be more highly concerned about Communist China !!!!
Maybe because the North Pacific isn’t part of the North Atlantic? And because it’s laughable to think Germany or Spain would go to war with China on behalf of Japan, or come to their aid if Godzilla returns?
I think it’s kind of retarded for Japan to pick a fight with the largest nuclear power on earth. I guess they forgot 1945. But hey, Orientals are inscrutable, so who knows what the hell they’re thinking?!
Since the same time we found out Turkey was.
Lol!
Japan and Germany and Italy getting the band back together!
"Well now, you are the only one to make an interesting offer, Japan. We've been waiting for someone to lead the way on our Give War a Chance Policy."
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Trump adviser rejects Vietnam's zero-tariff offer, cites 'national emergency'
“ Japan should be defending Taiwan, not Griftlandia.”
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Griftlandia was originally one of the homelands for the Celts and Goths. It appears that it has gone downhill since those days.
Japan is actually outside the geographical limits of the treaty. Having them come in would require re-doing it.
Japan is in the Pacific not Atlantic Ocean.
Touche!
They signed an armistice in 1956. But a formal peace treaty hasn’t been signed, because both sides claim 4 of the Kurile Islands and neither will back down.
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