Japan rearms for war: What it means for Asia - By Timur Fomenko, political analyst
Tokyo is working to assert itself as a global military power and could destabilize its entire region in the process....
While the United States has always seen Japan as the bulwark of its power-projection in Asia, a position it consolidated during the Korean War, it is now allowing Japan to “escape the leash” of its post-war military limitations, hoping it will help in the containment of China. The Biden administration has established a strategy of creating coalitions to target Beijing, such as for example, the Quad and AUKUS. The US aims to counter the rise of China through granting allies extended military capabilities and capacity that they did not have previously. Such as, for example, allowing Australia to gain nuclear submarines through AUKUS or, in this case, giving leeway for Japan to expand its military reach,
such as building new air bases in Okinawa.
In doing so, Washington increasingly understands Japan as a critical asset in a Taiwan-related contingency with China, with Japanese territory being effectively 100 kilometers or so east of the island itself. Thus, Japan now recognizes the island as a critical variable in its own defence policy, because if Taiwan falls to mainland rule, Japan will be militarily ‘checkmated’ by China, which will subsequently change the balance of power in Asia against the US....
What is notable is how Japan is not just turning to the United States for its own military expansionism,
but to other countries too. This includes deeper relationships with the UK, Canada and Australia, amongst others. For example, Japan will build
a “next generation fighter jet” with the UK and Italy which will involve the use of AI. While it is clear that the United States is pushing its allies to work together to try and contain China, on the other hand such moves also set out how Japan is attempting to reassert its own strategic independence with a view to establishing itself again as a military power in its own right, something it has not attempted since the 1940s.... RT
The above is from RT. The world's two most barbaric nations are ganging up together to start WW3. Oops, actually 3 most barbaric nations, the third is UK. Between the 3, many millions of people had been massacred and genocided during the colonial days and the two World Wars.
The lying savages of Japan invaded Russia, South Korea and China. South Korea was colonised, China almost colonised. None of the victim countries had ever invaded Japan. But the sneaky and dishonourable Japanese are faking threats from China, Russia and South Korea as reasons to justify its remilitarisation. This is reported in a slanted article by an ignorant western author in the ST on 19 Jan 23 by the name of Denny Roy, Hawaii. Or was the author lying and being mischievous. He cannot be so ignorant of the history of Japan against its neighbours. Typical lying Americans in cahoot with the barbaric Japanese. Japan was the threat, the invader of China, Russia and South Korea, not the other way round as claimed by Denny Roy.
This time if Japan attack any of the three countries, hope they will finish off the Japanese for the good of humankind.
It is the same American fake logic that China or Russia is a threat to the US, or the herdsmen of Afghanistan are a threat to the US, North Korea is a threat to the biggest nuclear power in the world. The real threat is the US to the rest of the world. The world's number one terrorist state. Now the number one terrorist state is ganging together with another two terrorist countries, UK and Japan, to want to start WW3, to attack China, Russia and countries they lied and branded as their enemies.
And the whole world is dumb, not saying a word, cannot see how these butchers of humanity going to start another round of killings around the world. White men and half whites have the right to start wars and to kill. No condemnation from the UN or the rest of the world. Their wars are for peace?
Below are some comments in RT on the remilitarisation of Japan.
Arkadios
Isn't it clear what the US is up to? They let Europe take over against Russia and let the allies around the Pacific start a conflict against China. All are weakened vis-à-vis the US, which keeps its distance.
Oriental
Good - China needs not seek any excuses or reasons to avenged the infamous of The Rape of Nanking!!!
CHEVI789
Anyone not seeing how the west is arming itself for a world war is only kidding him/her self, it's on the cards people, and "if" after they let's pretend they beat Russia and China then we're all next.
CMEequalsGW
"Japan rearms for war: What it means for Asia" Trouble again, that's what it means for Asia. When a warlike nation arms itself to the extent that Japan is doing it means they are not doing it for peace. The land of the rising Sun will become the Sun. Does anyone doubt they have been secretly working on nuclear weapons?
historian252
nobody realizes the WEST is in a world war with brics and friends, because russia doing great job at disarming the west in ukraine
kail
It is highly necessary to send Japan at least 50 to 80 years behind…of course Japan would be the only country to be nuked twice by US and once by China …and of course to settle horrific past war crimes by imperialist countries..
MadGrump
Does the nips still lust for Empire in Korea and Russia far east? They still Believe they are superior and entitled to slaves in those areas?? Especially the women? They believe that other Asian people are sub human yet today their atrocities are forgotten and white washed. Westerners seems to admire their combat abilities and war- like culture as it fits our own. America - - - you are buddies with another type of Talibans.
Cynic
Memories of Japanese military atrocities are coming back to Asia. Oh there’s lots and lots of people with axes to grind with Japan, and those deeds are never forgotten nor forgiven. No one took action against the Japanese solely because it committed to a pacifist philosophy, now it wants to rebuild an offensive military? Be prepared to face enemies from all directions in Asia.
'After Germany and France, Italy is the third largest economy in the Eurozone. Due to COVID, the EU suspended the SGP in May 2020 for an indefinite period. In March 2022, the Italian government called for the suspension to be continued because of the situation in Ukraine. Italy’s government debt to GDP ratio is currently over 155 per cent, well beyond the 60 per cent stipulated in the SGP. The country would default if the EU stopped funding its public debt. But under current circumstances, for how long would this support be forthcoming? Should Italy withdraw permanently from the SGP, the Euro would cease to be a viable currency. Some analysts believe that if Italy defaulted, the future of the EU itself would be at stake.
Enrico Colombatto, a professor of economics, has suggested that Italy would be better off seeking financial rescue from China, in exchange for some strategic assets, in particular access to the port of Trieste. A move towards stronger links with China would imply a shift in Italy’s foreign policy from a continental focus to a Mediterranean one.'
EU sanctions against Russia have increased the cost of gas and pulverised Euro exchange rates, both further depressing living standards in Italy and increasing manufacturing costs. Italy’s gas prices have thus increased by a factor of five since 2021, prices of food and other essential goods have increased between 10-25%, and its economy could be facing approximately a 5 per cent drop in GDP next year.
This is creating a situation where, according to Indian ex-diplomat and commentator M.K. Bhadrakumar: ‘The plain truth is that the European integration project is over and done with’.
Should Italy distance itself from NATO or leave it altogether, particularly in the light of Turkey’s ambivalent stance and the possibility of a Russian victory in Ukraine, it is doubtful that the alliance would be able to survive.
If Italy’s economy and its energy security deteriorate further due to the embargo on Russian energy supplies, or should NATO troops intervene directly in the conflict, it is increasingly likely that the Italian government will consider realigning its international orientation away from a continental strategy centred on the EU and NATO and towards a Mediterranean-focused one that is closer to BRICS. It could even become the third ‘I’ in the BRICS after India and Iran, as one analyst has advocated, creating a tipping point in the global economy.
Link to article:
http://thesaker.is/mussolini-re-dux-could-italys-new-foreign-policy-trigger-a-passage-to-a-multipolar-world-order/