The US is considering deploying new missiles to Japan as part of its buildup aimed at China, the Japanese Sankei reported on Saturday.
The report cited sources involved in US-Japan relations and said the US might deploy medium-range missiles but is also considering sending Tomahawk missiles or long-range Hypersonic weapons, which are still under development.
The location for the missile deployment hasn’t been chosen, but they are considering Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost main island. The deployment would align with a Pentagon plan to place long-range missiles along the first island chain, which stretches from southern Japan through Taiwan, the Philippines, and down to Malaysia.
Tomahawk missiles have a range of over 1,000 miles, and Japan is planning to purchase about 500 of its own Tomahawks as part of Tokyo’s unprecedented military buildup. The plan involves doubling Japan’s military spending over the next five years, which would make Japan’s defense budget the third-highest in the world.
The US is encouraging Japan’s military buildup, which breaks from Tokyo’s US-imposed constitution that limits the Japanese military to strictly defensive purposes. US and Japanese officials recently announced new steps to boost military ties, including the deployment of a US Marine Corps unit in Okinawa’s islands that will be armed with anti-ship missiles.
Nothing happened in Turkey. The Soviets and Cubans were simply bloodthirsty communists who wanted to blow up us Hard Working White Americans
bloodthirsty communists who wanted to blow up us Hard Working White Americans
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Not only will those missiles be shot down, but Japan will become a pile of ash. What the hell are these people thinking. They're like 5 steps away from China lol
They’re presumably thinking “i am a junior member and client state of the American empire, better do what they say or they’ll nuke us again”
they don't have the international support for an independence diplomatic play to leave the American market
Which, ironically, is setting themselves up to be the only nation in history to get nuked by two different countries.
They're already the only nation in history to get nuked at all. Only one nation has ever nuked anyone.
But nuclear testing in occupied colony is different than intentionally killing people with a nuke. Still bad, but different bad. And you can also say the us nuked whatever native people who had the land on where nuclear tests were as well. But that's besides the point, :amerikkka: :france-cool:
There's probably also some nationalist brainworms going on. The Japanese nationalist right are just as fashy as other fash.
Every week the US fucks around and I can't wait for the day it finally finds out.
US starts a war with China and loses 90% of the entire Pacific fleet in a week because anti-ship missiles are the game changers now. While that's a great "finding out" result, what scares me is that Americans are so arrogant and not used to that level of humiliation, that I bet you will start seeing public outcry to nuke every city in China if that happens.
I can, because when the US 'finds out' it usually involves a death count of 10 to 1 innocents to Americans.
look at the stonks--it worked out exactly like the people in charge wanted it to.
but is also considering sending Tomahawk missiles or long-range Hypersonic weapons, which are still under development.
China is considering deploying Xi Jinping's personal fusion-powered mech suit, which is still under development.
I love how constitutions just don't matter when it comes to doing anything evil. But if it involves giving poor people Healthcare then even the parliamentarians word is law.
