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With so much of their military tied up in the boondoggle on their western front I guess now would be the perfect time to pounce on disputed territory. Knowing y
by yardie 5y ago
With so much of their military tied up in the boondoggle on their western front I guess now would be the perfect time to pounce on disputed territory. Knowing your enemy distracted.
- ilammy 5y agoThankfully, Article 9 is still in Japan's constitution, so it's very unlikely that any action would happen. Just rolling back to pre-2018 status quo, before Japan was seemingly willing to resolve the dispute at last.
- Armisael16 5y agoArticle 9 doesn’t really mean what it says, at least in practice. If Japan is attacked the state won’t just roll over and die - it’ll try to defend itself (hence the JSDF). You can read it as forbidding offensive war, but if Japan has claimed that those islands are part of Japan for a while then there’s enough of an argument for it being defensive war that no one will much care.
- FpUser 5y agoSo repeating something long enough suddenly changes a reality?
- fomine3 5y agoYes, current the constitution of Japan is very hard to change so it had never changed. Still govt need to do some military-ish operation so they changed how to interpret multiple times.
- lifeplusplus 5y agoTactical nukes bend that roi calculation in favor of russia
- FpUser 5y ago>" I guess now would be the perfect time to pounce on disputed territory" And get a nuke in response?
- russianshill 5y ago
- random_upvoter 5y agoI think that piling on top of an already volatile situation is a distinctly unwise move.