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Considering what happened to Iraq, Libya, soon Syria and all the others, yes, nuclear capabilities are among the only things to protect you. And to think the c

• kuschku 9y ago
  You can use an even better example, Ukraine. The Ukraine gave up their nuclear weaponry, with a promise from the west that we’d protect them. Only a few years later, Russia is invading the Ukraine right now, and we all don’t do shit.
  • jethro_tell 9y ago
    >with a promise from the west that we’d protect them. Well actually, with a promise that the USA and Russia would protect them. So it's not quite so clean cut as saying no one came to my aid. When infact, they were attacked by the people who were going to come to their aid. They could have joined NATO to get the backing of the full NATO Alliance, but they failed to get that done in 20 years because they didn't want to assure human rights for LGBT community which was a huge wedge issue (probably with massive help from Russian astro-turing). NATO will not allow a country to join that is currently involved in a border dispute. So they are in a bit of a pickle, though not one that should have been too hard to see coming.
    • themaninthedark 9y ago
      Only Russia attacked them. What aid has the USA rendered? This situation has shaken Japan's faith that the USA is willing to honor the agreement with them.