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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Japan, Germany sign military supply-sharing pact.
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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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That sounds familiar:
Given that the PRC is geographically “between” Germany and Japan similarly to how the Soviet Union was, I doubt that this is a mere coincidence.
The big difference being that neither Japan or Germany come anywhere close to China in terms of industrial strength, have lots of internal political turmoil, and lack access to cheap energy. Hence this time it really is a farce.
Tbh, Germany and Japan are probably the strongest industrial powers after China.
They do matter still imho and need to be decoupled from the US.
They're important for sure but are kidding themselves if they think they're militarily at the same levels they were in during ww2.
That might happen, especially in Germany where there's growing public anger now over the declining material conditions. I think once it becomes conclusive that the war is lost and once Trump gets into power in US, the current political establishment will be utterly discredited.
Doesn't this violate the Japanese constitution or did they just decide to ignore it?
Japan has reinterpreted Article 9 to allow them to have “self defense” forces beyond reasonable interpretation of the actual text.