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re: Shrink the military? Can right and left agree on this?
Posted on 1/24/14 at 9:47 pm to THRILLHO
Posted on 1/24/14 at 9:47 pm to THRILLHO
Germany has all of the power it wants (it essentially is the bank that controls the fiscal policy of the EU) and prefers to flex it's muscles via economic and monetary policy. Militarily, there is nothing that they could really accomplish with a large domestic military.
Japan, on the other hand, could very easily rally around the existential threat of China to jump start its economy around rebuilding its military and Nationalistic pride Mussolini style. They would have the capacity to become a massive threat towards stability in the Pacific rim within a decade and throw fuel into the fire for a massive arms race/cold war with China. Not necessarily a good thing.
Japan, on the other hand, could very easily rally around the existential threat of China to jump start its economy around rebuilding its military and Nationalistic pride Mussolini style. They would have the capacity to become a massive threat towards stability in the Pacific rim within a decade and throw fuel into the fire for a massive arms race/cold war with China. Not necessarily a good thing.
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Posted on 1/24/14 at 9:49 pm to kingbob
quote:The only thing that stops them from doing this is us. We are the security guarantor for many countries throughout the world. It would be a much scarier world if we were to withdraw, as several posters here suggest.
Japan, on the other hand, could very easily rally around the existential threat of China to jump start its economy around rebuilding its military and Nationalistic pride Mussolini style. They would have the capacity to become a massive threat towards stability in the Pacific rim within a decade and throw fuel into the fire for a massive arms race/cold war with China. Not necessarily a good thing.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 10:01 pm to kingbob
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Japan, on the other hand, could very easily rally around the existential threat of China to jump start its economy around rebuilding its military and Nationalistic pride Mussolini style. They would have the capacity to become a massive threat towards stability in the Pacific rim within a decade and throw fuel into the fire for a massive arms race/cold war with China. Not necessarily a good thing.
Then the Japanese would be destroyed if they fired the first shot, and we would take the Chinese' side. We wouldn't put up with that bullshite and it would mean instant economic depression world wide for such a war to break out. Japan understands the need for a stable economy, and they are the third largest worldwide. No way in hell does Japan make a move like that, regardless of how much Japan and China hate each other.
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