Return of the samurai: Japan steps away from pacifist constitution

[terranMarine]

It doesn't matter if Saudi Arabia was not an enemy during WW2. Your assumption is that because we have American forces occupying Okinawa and so on means Japan doesn't have independence. Or Saudi Arabia as well. And why is the UK a lapdog? Was it an enemy of the U.S. as well during WW2 and allowing American forces on its soil?

And as you pointed out the sanctions were rejected until the plane was shot down by the rebels. So why was it rejected in the first place? Puppeteers don't reject or question its master in the first place.

Stop the charade, didn't the US forced the EU countries to join the Americans in the Afghan / Iraq war?
When the topic arose of prosecuting American war criminals in the international court of justice, didn't Bush warn about the consequences and from there on no EU politicians dare mention about it anymore?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/weekinreview/28bilefsky.html?_r=0

Will Hutton: Time to stop being America's lap-dog | World news | The Observer

Two newspapers mentioning the word lapdog, and plenty Europeans think their countries are lapdogs too, that should speak volume.

 

[AgentOrange]

WOW that is a lot of yen! that means you have some $100b defence budget a year. no wonder the chinese are fearful and begin to wet their pants. you can see it clearly, the number of anti-japan articles in state media increases at an alarming rate

I pity them

Don´t hesitate to send the surplus of your military equipments to VN.

banzai!

All Chinese people should encourage an aging and dying Japan to increase their defense spending. It's actually great news that Japan spends 100 billion on defense. Hopefully Japan spends 200 billion on defense next year. And 300 billion the year after that. As China's economy increases in size and Japan's economy stagnates once again due to the failure of Abenomics and a greying and increasingly non-homogenous society, I can only see good things for China if Japan wants to spend 3-5% of their GDP on defense.

As for being fearful and wetting their pants, it seems to me, only our Viet members here are scared. Else, they wouldn't be cheer leading in every PDF thread that has anything remotely to do with China. Truly the actions of a people from a frightened banana republic, jumping at the shadows of every unarmed Chinese oil rig that floats by.

 

[Jaggu]

Nihonjin, excellent posts on this topic. The world is a vastly different place from what it was at the end of ww2. It's good to see Japan is changing with the times.

 

[EastSea]

Many in Japan, young and old, worry that is leading their nation down a path to war. Others say it is a necessary response to China's growing army.

 

[Cossack25A1]

There is this one saying written in Latin that goes like this: Si vis pacem, para bellum

 

[Oldman1]

Stop the charade, didn't the US forced the EU countries to join the Americans in the Afghan / Iraq war?
When the topic arose of prosecuting American war criminals in the international court of justice, didn't Bush warn about the consequences and from there on no EU politicians dare mention about it anymore?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/weekinreview/28bilefsky.html?_r=0

Will Hutton: Time to stop being America's lap-dog | World news | The Observer

Two newspapers mentioning the word lapdog, and plenty Europeans think their countries are lapdogs too, that should speak volume.

How do you force them? Under NATO treaty when one member of the country is attacked you joined them to fight the enemy. Are you that ignorant?

 

[Aepsilons]

 

[terranMarine]

How do you force them? Under NATO treaty when one member of the country is attacked you joined them to fight the enemy. Are you that ignorant?

What has Iraq done?

 

[Oldman1]

What has Iraq done?

What has Afghanistan done?

 

[terranMarine]

What has Afghanistan done?

Why evading my question? which country did Iraq attack?

 

[Oldman1]

Why evading my question? which country did Iraq attack?

You are evading mine, which country attack the U.S.?

 

[terranMarine]

You are evading mine, which country attack the U.S.?

that's right pal, EU is just US lapdog. Americans tell them to sit they sit, launch an invasion against Iraq and they blindly follow

 

[Oldman1]

that's right pal, EU is just US lapdog. Americans tell them to sit they sit, launch an invasion against Iraq and they blindly follow

Well okay whatever you said. Not every NATO member participated in Iraq. You still haven't answered about Afghanistan, but I understand why you want to deny it.

 

[terranMarine]

Well okay whatever you said. Not every NATO member participated in Iraq. You still haven't answered about Afghanistan, but I understand why you want to deny it.

It is you who do not want to answer what Iraq has done which warranted the Americans to launch a war against Saddam forcing lapdogs such as UK to participate.

 

[Oldman1]

It is you who do not want to answer what Iraq has done which warranted the Americans to launch a war against Saddam forcing lapdogs such as UK to participate.

You haven't answered about the invasion of Afghanistan so be okay with that.