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Japan approved sending its military abroad for the first time since World War II
2015-09-19
[BusinessInsider] Japan's parliament voted into law Saturday a defense policy shift that could let troops fight overseas for the first time since 1945, a milestone in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to loosen the limits of the pacifist constitution on the military.

Abe says the shift, the biggest change in Japan's defense policy since the creation of its post-war military in 1954, is vital to meet new challenges such as from a rising China.
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#5  We can't have the next world war without Japan.
Posted by: mossomo   2015-09-19 17:48  

#4  The German people never recovered from the Diet of Worms. Just sayin', is all.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-09-19 11:35  

#3  I like the way that in the Japanese Diet during the debate a fistfight broke out when one delegate called another a pacifist. A rumble ensued.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-09-19 09:28  

#2  Of couse Japan's security needs have changed after the Ginza Incident.

Posted by: Chuckles Shatle5927   2015-09-19 09:13  

#1  CHINA to definitely "no like".

Again, CHINA + JAPAN = RUSSIA + GERMANY [China?] = CHINA IDEALLY WOULD LIKE NIPPON TO ABANDON THE US-WEST + BE IN ITS CAMP AGZ SAME - Ditto s per getting the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. ASEAN to switch to China agz the US-West, BUT ESPEC JAPAN + IN LESSOR THE PHILIPPINES.

I have argued or inferred that the best way or one way for China to achieve this is for the US = Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama or his POTUS Successor to NOT live up to the US' various Mutual Defense-Security Treaties wid its East Asia Allies. THE LATTER WILL BECOME ANGRY AT THE US DUE TO THEIR NATION-SPECIFIC, SEEMING LOSS OF INTEGRATED OR CLAIMED TERRITORIES, TRADE, ETC. TO CHINA DUE TO US ACTIONS = FAILURES.

As a reminder ...

* IIRC GROONG > [US = US-led] WAR AGZ RUSSIA NOW BEING WAGED/FOUGHT AGZ CHINA - EX-RUSSIA SPY.

ARTIC > Personage denotes that a DE FACTO RE-MAPPING OR RE-SHAPING OF THE WORLD IS NOW TAKING PLACE, espec via NON-WAR MEANS = MILPOL OPERATIONS OOTW/OOTNW [Operations-Other-Than- War/Nuclear War].

OOTW/OOTNW = 9-11 Event + GWOT, US CIA-INTEL accused of creating Al-Qaeda + ISIS???

* TOPIX > [NY Observer] A VERY DANGEROUS TIME TO FIGHT CHINA.

ARTIC = denotes that AUTHORITARIAN STATE CAN BECOME A "GREAT POWER" = SUPERPOWER? WIDOUT CHALLENGING WORLD ORDER, USUALLY VIA WAR, OR STRATEGIES WHICH INCLUDE LIMITED OR ALL-OUT VIOLENT WARFARE, GREATEST FEAR IS CHINA COLLECTING + ORGANIZING A GROUP OF FORMER US-ALLIED + NAM NATIONS INTO AN UN-CHALLENGABLE OR UN-OPPOSABLE ANTI-US BLOC/COALITION.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-09-19 01:31  

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