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Is Japan Preparing For War?
Back on October 7, 1940, more than a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum in his capacity as director of the Office of Naval Intelligence's Far East Asia section, drafted what is now known as the "Eight Action Memo" (which can be read in its entirety here) to FDR in which he recommended an eight-part course of action for the United States to take in regard to the Japanese Empire in the South Pacific, suggesting the United States provoke Japan into committing an overt act of war.
Explicitly, in the memo McCollum said that "It is not believed that in the present state of political opinion the United States government is capable of declaring war against Japan without more ado." Which leaves one option: force Japan to declare war on the US: "If by these means Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better. At all events we must be fully prepared to accept the threat of War."
How would the US accelerate this plan to have Japan declare war on it? Simple: by collapsing the Japanese economy sufficiently, to where a crippled Japan would stand to lose little by declaring war on the US. Some of the specific steps planned in advance:
- Give all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chiang-Kai-Shek.
- Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil.
- Completely embargo all U.S. trade with Japan, in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire.
In other words, the plan was to "entrap" Japan to declare war on the US - a declaration which the US would have long anticipated - which would then allow America to engage Europe and Hitler as part of its broader entry into World War II from which it had been previously separated.
Sure enough, just over a year later, with its economy in shambles and having no real option than to attack the country that had put it in an untenable position, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the rest is history.
The reason we bring it up is because Japan just approved a record 5 trillion yen defense budget: one which while paling by comparison to America's gargantuan defense spending, prompted Bloomberg to observe that "Japan gets ready to fight."
For decades, Japan was bound by its 1947 constitution to mobilize troops solely for self-defense. The country didn’t have the legal right to send armed troops abroad to protect its own people or back up allies who come under attack. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is determined to change this Cold War arrangement, which was imposed by the U.S. during its postwar occupation of Japan. Today the country faces a far more complex set of threats than the Soviet invasion that it feared 70 years ago. Islamic State has pledged more attacks to punish Japan’s decision to extend $200 million in humanitarian aid to countries battling the extremists who hold sway over large sections of Syria and Iraq.
Abe, a defense hawk and the scion of a prominent political family, has embarked on an overhaul of national security strategy. In an historic step, his cabinet last year approved the exports of military equipment and conducted a legal review that concluded Japan had the right to deploy its military power abroad to protect its citizens and back up allies under attack. In addition, the cabinet favored loosening limits on when Japan’s Self-Defense Forces could use deadly force during United Nations peacekeeping operations and international incidents near Japan that fall short of full-scale war.
To be sure, Japan is not contemplating becoming a second US, and allowing "moderate Syria rebels" direct air support. However, with the boosted defensive (and offensive) capabilities Japan just may believe it has enough leverage to take on someone, anyone, if it so chooses:
Abe isn’t contemplating Japanese boots on the ground in Iraq or Syria or joint offensive operations with the U.S. anywhere else. He calls his initiatives “proactive contributions to peace.” The Japanese public remains wary of foreign entanglements and rescue missions abroad. The same goes for the Komeito Party, the Liberal Democratic Party’s partner in the coalition. Abe faces a heated debate in the Diet to get approval to provide rearguard support to the U.S. This is, after all, the country that last year celebrated the successful effort by a Japanese housewife to have Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces war, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bloomberg lays out some of the key budgeted expenditures:
Japan’s economic and fiscal woes, which Abe is trying to address, will make it difficult to significantly upgrade the country’s military. In January the cabinet approved a record 4.98 trillion-yen ($41 billion) defense budget that includes funding to purchase Northrop Grumman Global Hawk drones and F-35A fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. Even so, that’s less than a tenth of what the U.S. spends annually and less than half of China’s defense tab.
Then again Japan does not need to match the US in capabilities. All it needs is to boost its self-confidence enough to where the next time a Chinese cruiser crosses into what Japan believes is its maritime territory, it will think just once, not twice, before unleashing a torpedo at the offender.
Bloomberg's conclusion: "If Abe’s national security makeover succeeds, Japan’s evolution into a “normal state,” as LDP strategists say, will get a big boost."
Of course, "normal" is being generous: as those who follow Japan's economic collapse are well-aware, between Abenomics and its demographic implosion, Japan is now the first officially failed "Keynesian" state. And sadly, it is the fact that Japan's economic situation is now as bad if not worse compared to where it was in 1940 that makes it the biggest threat: because as Greece is demonstrating currently, it is not until "you have lost everything, that you are free to do anything."
Japan has almost lost everything. It still has its precious Nikkei but that is one major central bank debacle away from total implosion. And then what?
Which brings us to our original question: is Japan actively preparing for war... or, just like in 1940s, is the stage being set by "someone" to "force" Japan to declare war on "someone", once the next and final pillar from underneath its economic house of cards - a house of cards that has only gotten worse when Japan followed the US fed into terminal currency devaluation courtesy of the BOJ's money printer - is finally pulled?
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Miffed;-)
wow 6 whole F35s?!!!! LOOK OUT
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The F-35's are to reverse engineer and make better planes that don't suck like ours.
WTF? $4 million funding for maternity dress uniforms? What, they gonna make a battalion of pregnant women?
The BRICS is now BRICJS
The truth is that the US wanted to crash and burn the Zaibutsu companies (Financial cliques), 'cause while the US and other countries were in depression, Japan was blowing the doors of all other nations financially with the Zaibatsus. The US after winning the war and found out how the Zaibatsus were organized and how they functioned, adapted the system for US companies (the hypocrites they are) and allowed the Zaibatsus to exist with a slightly different MO and were renamed Keiretsu (system of interlocking companies) (more politically correct).
Keiretsu companies crossown shares of eachother and hide behind banking cartels so that it is difficult to value them thus preventing takeovers.
Each group of Keiretsus are protected by a different faction in the "diet" (Japanese parliament). Thus maintaining the status quo)
Fast forward to todays roo big to fail, (Banks, Insurances, GE, MIC, on and on.)
Now that Japan, EU, US, China and the rest are insolvent, the race to find the boogie man is on.
Greece will pull the trigger and turn the lights off for the world having failed democracy as conceived and practiced then. (Back to drachma and start from scratch)
I am hoping that Greece refuses to give the Olympic flame anymore as these games have also been corrupted and the spoils go to the highest bidder.
What is wrong with highest bidder? Is not the problem that the highest bidder is only so because he/she has a printing press? As long as the highest bidder has to earn it, what is the downside?
Downside is, highest bidder is a monopolist and locust, in most cases. No upside in having Colgate, J&J, P&G sharing all brands of the world among each other or Nestle owning everything edible on the planet.
That make me laugh as Japan Postal buys Austalia's Toll holdings for $9 Billion and all of it printed and converted Yen.
Did they overpay... Yes
do they care.... No
swapping paper for hard assets is so easy when you digitally counterfiet.
The Toll directors even got a huge golden Shute and told the sheep Sell so they can retire.
I suspect the Globalist Endgame is to push Japan and China into the East Asian version of WWI. Your thoughts?
Wow what a bunch of bullshit
Just like the Author's rant. The United States didn't force Japan into World War II. Japan was already on a war of conquest in Asia. Remember, the rape of Nanking was in 1937. Long before the U.S. had even begun looking westward.
Exactly - the people here on Zerohedge are either dolts or intenionally take things out context, which is a form of lying. The context of the memo is that Germany, Italy, and Japan are engaged in a war of conquest and have made an alliance to wage war on the United States, so war is inevitable. The memo reflects on how to respond to present conditions and the inevitability of agressive war waged against the United States by the Axis alliance. The memo noted the pressing problem of the UK holding out against the Axis and the best immediate outcome would be a war against Japan by the US to relieve pressure on the British in the Pacific because the US had no army ready to lend the UK a hand in Europe. Countries with no army rarely try to entrap powerful enemies tp attack them, unless you live in Zerohedge fantasy land.
By the time this memo was written, Germany had invaded and conquered Austria, Czekoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Neatherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, and France, then considered the foremost land-power on earth.
Japan had invaded and conquered Korea (North and South), Manchuria, much of China, and lots of Pacific islands.
No one was "entrapping" these people into war. Thye were already up tpo their eyeballs in agressive war, and were plotting on adding the US as a target of their agression. To think anything else is frankly idiocy - but that's what you get at Zerohedge these days.
Lastly. LCDR's in the Navy, equivalent in rank to Majors in the Army do not make policy for the United States. They make missives and suggestions when asked for such, but that's as far as it goes. A memo from Admiral King or General Marshall would be significant. A memo from an O-4 is not, unless, again, you live in Zerohedge fantasy land.
Oh, and by the way, teh guy the Memo was written to was a CAPT in the Navy, so not someone who makes policy either. And by the CAPT's comments, he does not agree with the LCDR, saying the best course of action is to directly support the UK with materiel, and any war with Japan would divert resources we could otherwise be giving to the UK.
No. That is absolutely misleading.
The memo was written TO the United States Commander in Chief, the former Secretary of the U.S. Navy, the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FROM Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, who was acting, UNDER ORDERS, in his capacity as Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence's Far East Asia section,
Lieutenant Commanders are NOT Captains in this man's Navy.
Next Lieutenant Commanders are JUNIOR OFFICERS. They do not undertake ANY ACTION UNILATERALLY. They follow ORDERS from SENIOR OFFICERS. Furthermore they follow the CHAIN OF COMMAND. A good method on ending one's COMMISSION is to VIOLATE THE CHAIN OF COMMAND...and especially when jumping rank all of the way to the Commander in Chief. That is a career ender.
There are many instances of Officer Commissions being TERMINATED due to these violations of the Military Code of Conduct.
But as you LACK ETHICS and any Code of Conduct in your life so this concept is ALIEN to you.
McCollum was ACTING...UNDER ORDERS in his capacity, with prudence and due dilligence.
You are most definitely NOT AN OFFICER NOR A GENTLEMAN. Futhermore you have NEVER SERVED. You'd know this if you had.
You are a LIAR and a SCOUNDREL. Your words reveal your underlying lack of any character.
You had best WAKE THE FUCK UP, MISTER. Because you, and your ilk, will be tried under Military Tribunal for Treason after the Military coup d'etat (...which, most likely, is currently being planned. Just why do you think Obama fired dozens of Military Officers, Junior Officers and Senior Officers? At least he has not resorted to the Stalinist purges of the Red Army...yet.)
So FUCK YOU NSA. There may be people whom are plotting, currently, within your own ranks.
Even Thomas Dewey, in his 1944 Presidential Campaign, was going to bring up the fact that Roosevelt knew abot the impending attack on Pearl Harbor, and elected to allow it to happen.
From Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey
Dewey nearly included, in his campaign, claims that Roosevelt knew ahead of time about the attack on Pearl Harbor; Dewey added, "and instead of being re-elected he should be impeached." The U.S. military was extremely worried because that would let the Japanese know that the U.S. had broken the Purple code. Army General George C. Marshall made a persistent effort to persuade Dewey not to touch this topic; Dewey eventually yielded
Paul F. Boller, Jr., Presidential Campaigns, 1985.
Yep, another ZeroHedge Wack-a-doodle.
My honest question to you is, can you fucking read? The Memo is clearly to the Director of the Office of naval Intelligence, not the White House, for goodness sake. Don't just make stuff up, or are you really an ignoramus. Sorry, that was a rhetorical question. The Memo was never endoresed or forwarded. There are specific notations that are made when that happens. In fact, it never made it to the Director of Naval Intelligence. we know this because there is no endorsement by the LCDR's boss. A CAPT Knox did write a comment to the memorandum. This was NOT an endorsement or a forwarding memo, just a comment. CAPT Knox was Officer in Charge of the Naval Records and Library of ONI, so he was not a mover-shaker either.
In addition, CAPT Knox does NOT agree with the author's missive and thinks the best way forward is direct material support to the UK, not war with Japan, and the CAPT further thinks Japan will be restrained in respect to the US as long as the UK is holding out against Germany, therefore, CAPT Knox would not have passed these ideas up his chain, which, by the way, is WAY removed from the White House in any event. Do you have any clue what it takes to get information in front of the President? Obviously not. Certainly, missives from LCDR's do not go there, especially missives that superiors disagree with and took no other action on than to archive it.
In addition, the Office of Naval Intelligence is not in the business of developing national policy, but rather information on which national policy makers MAY, at their discretion, take into consideration in their deliberations. As such, the missives in the memo are just that, and when the LCDR goes beyond an estimate of the enemy's intentions and capabilities, he is off his reservation, and those whose job it is to make strategy and policy would ignore a junior officer speaking outside his expertise and, indeed, legal authority - see US Code Title 50, but alas, you are incapable of comprehending the written language. And if a junior officer made actual recommendations outside his legal authority, those with the actual authority would be quick to stuff him back in his box no matter what they thought of his opinions. What is presented here is akin to an inner-office email today. Hell, it's only classified confidential. I do not think you can find anything marked as only confidential in ONI today.
And if, in the very unlikely event, they start trying people for treason for expressing common sense and reason, so be it. But I don't think that is an offense covered under the governing statute. I think I have to give actual aid and comfort to enemies of the United States, and not just offense to your personal deranged and counter-factual opinion.
I suggest you seek medication for your deranged conspiratorial paranoia and dementia. I do not say this to be mean or nasty. I really do mean it as a helpful suggestion. Seriously, I do.
Wow. So much bullshit I don't even know where to start.
"The context of the memo is that Germany, Italy, and Japan are engaged in a war of conquest and have made an alliance to wage war on the United States, so war is inevitable." By this do you mean the defensive Tripartate pact? Which was mostly a propaganda piece that did not involve any specific planned offensive stategy?
You know what is funny about your viewpoint? You are so mired in your monocular view of the world that you don't even understand how one sided it is. In your mind, Japan/Germany/Italy were the "bad guys", whose actions and viewpoints don't even therefore need to be understood, because they were just "evil", right? Ergo, they must have had this insatiable blood lust that would only be slaked through constant attacks on innocent people, ergo they must have been planning some "attack" against mainland US despite the near impossibility of this being successful. Thus by a series of ignorant iterations, we must have been under immediate and direct threat, which magically frees us to conceptually distill those responsible for this imagined aggression down to the guys in black hats, against which we are then magically and morally free to wage "defensive" war. Ain't rationalization wonderful!?
So let's think this through logically. What exactly was Japan's expansion threatening? Whose territory did the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" threaten? European and American colonies, yes? Certainly not Europe proper or US proper. No, they threatened things like French Indochina, and British Malaya, and US Phillipines. All wrenched by force from the natives with good old fashioned blood and bullets. Those territories belonged to white people, by god, we took them by force fairly and honestly. How dare those upstart Japanese, a race that clearly did not understand that their place in the world was to be subservient to the white Europeans who had colonized them fair and square, try to replicate our Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt corrolary? Those sorts of grandiose flag planting territory marking displays are the exclusive right of the big dogs. Not the untermenschen.
But I digress. Because the real gem in your thought process is that you acknowledge that the ideal outcome was war between Japan and the US: "The memo reflects on how to respond to present conditions and the inevitability of agressive war waged against the United States by the Axis alliance. The memo noted the pressing problem of the UK holding out against the Axis and the best immediate outcome would be a war against Japan by the US to relieve pressure on the British in the Pacific because the US had no army ready to lend the UK a hand in Europe." Exactly. The only sticking point was how to get the American people, who were roundly against getting involved in the war, to go along with something they were dead set against.
So, our solution was to embargo 75% of their scrap iron, 93% of their copper, and 80% of their oil. Think we would consider it an act of economic warfare if someone held us hostage like that and offered to lift the embargo only if we gave up sovereign territory? Suppose we could extrapolate that they would consider it an act of warfare if we did it to them? If we didn't, then we must admit that our leaders were pathetically tone deaf geopolitically, because war was obviously the outcome. And if we did, then our leaders were simply tipping over the dominoes that they knew would lead to war.
So, I'm trying to figure out which conclusion you are advocating. Is the viewpoint you are advocating that Roosevelt was a pathetic bumbling fool who ham fistedly got us into a war that no one wanted? Or was your viewpoint that Roosevelt saw the need for war and cunningly knew how to lean American international presence so as to manipulate the responses of both other countries as well as his own constituents? Because it would seem those are your only two choices.
I agree with you...just to add a little more.
What's sad about those pre-War years was that free trade did not exist. A small country like Japan had to invade to have access to raw material & a market to sell its products. It was way behind the West concerning overseas colonies.
Territorial conquest was the only way, although it was sad by today's standard.
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Wow. Thanks for enlightening me. Germany really did need all that extra living space, and, gosh, just had to set the world on fire and kill millions of people to get it. It was so mean of the French, Slovaks, Serbians, Croations, Greeks, Russians, Ukranians, Latvians, Estonians, Bosnians, Albanians, Lithuanians, Danes, Norwiegians, Poles, Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgers, etc, etc, etc, to try and deny it to them. The Nazis were only acting in their rational self-interests in a defensive war. I mean, shit, Luxemburg was about to kick their ass. They had to act! How dare anyone try to oppose that? Really. Who possibly could? Well, certainly not Italy and Japan, but everyone else was in a conspiracy to fight them every inch of the way. The Germansl had to defend themsleves against such selfishness.
And the Japanese, damn, people wanted market prices for the stuff they owned, but the Japanese did not think they should have to pay it, and really, why should they have? They were a superior race of people who deserved to rule over the less developed peoples. So they were entitled to invade Manchuria, the mainland of China, Taiwan, the Pacific islands, and the Korea's and just take what they needed, because all the people who already lived there didn't need their own shit, and certainly had no right to dictate who and under what conditions the Japanese, or anyone else for that matter, should have access to it their fruit of their land and labor. After all, as you say, Japan was just a small country, I mean, in 1940, there were FOUR whole countries with larger populations (China, India, USA. and Russia, in that order) with only the third largest navy in the world. I mean, they weren't even number 1 or 2, but number THREE. Poor pitiful tiny Japan. They just had to throw all those chinese babies in the air and catch them on their bayonets. We made them do that, because we prefered they actually pay people for the stuff they wanted. The US is so fucking evil. I get it now. Hitler and Tojo, the goods guys, just like Putin now.
"So, our solution was to embargo 75% of their scrap iron, 93% of their copper, and 80% of their oil."
Hmmmm, lets see, Option 1: Let them continue to rape and pillage through the world, and hope they eventually do not come to rape and pillage us. Option 2: War that will kill millions of people, or... Option 3: Let's try economic sanctions to try and avoid Options 1 and 2.
Not really a hard choice if you are not either an idiot, blood thirsty, or blind to evil.
No one made Japan attack anyone. They decided on that course of action all by themsleves. Thye spent decades building the army, navy and air force to do it.
And again, the memo was from a JUNIOR OFFICER to a CAPT in a directorate with in the Office of Naval Intelligence who was his boss and who DISSAGREED with his subordinate's opinion. Junior officers do not set policy if the United States. Nor do Captains.
So many morons, so little time.
So what would happen today if Japan built an enormous military force and attacked China and began to rape and pillage the place for raw materials?
I imagine there would be a big fucking war, but I think the Japanese will need quite bit more than 6 Joint Strike Fighters and military maternity wear to carry it off. Otherwise, it will be a short little war, indeed.
The entirety of the lead article to this thread posted on Zerohedge is an absurdity.
"Ergo, they must have had this insatiable blood lust that would only be slaked through constant attacks on innocent people, ergo they must have been planning some "attack" against mainland US despite the near impossibility of this being successful."
Hmmm, attacks against the "mainland US." So fuck US terroritors of Guam, Wake Island, and the Phillipines which were attacked and brutally occupied (all civillians on Wake island were executed, for instance) and the future states of Alaska and Hawaii, which were successfully attacked and, in the case of Alaska, partially occupied, killing thousands of Americans in the process, oh, and California, too, though it was just a few shells from a submarine. And all those frieghters blowing up in plain site of residents and beach goers on the US eatern and gulf coasts after being torpedoed by U-boats, with all the dead bodies washing ashore. OK, not technically the mainland, but its getting pretty damn close.
OK, in reality, the Japanese did not think they would have to invade the mainland. They figured we would fold after they destroyed the Pacific Fleet. That's what they really thought, despite what Admiral Yamaotto told them. Guess they fucked up. Sucked to be them.
After the women enlist, or are drafted, their first order will be to get pregnant.
Ah, a protracted war. Now that'll really get Japan out of this depression.
If RafterManFMJ ran the Nation, any woman that became pregnant while under contract would NOT be discharged but rather sequestered until birth.
Her enlistment would be increased by 5X the time she was inactive, loss of all rank, and the child given over to anonymous adoption, and the records scrubbed.
Second pregnancy under contract, above plus 10X multiplier, and automatic sterilization.
You don't like it? Don't enlist.
I can guarantee this bullshit of pregnancy increasing anytime deployment looks would end, and end over night.
I don't think you've been informed. Allow me. Any recruit getting preggers is 'taking one for the team' so to say.
That was more than generous of you. I would have forced sterilization after the first.
That this is occurring is unconscionable and, as a woman, I am terribly ashamed. There are a few of us left that do find this abhorrent. Another reason why men don't respect women today. How many more nails in our coffin can we take?
A wise man told me I was fortunate to be a woman because as such I was rescued from my abusive childhood by a man. Men are never rescued. They know their journey is always alone and they are expected to deal with it.
Miffed
Obama thougth bubble, "We could send Joe to Japan..."
It's a lot of sailor moon outfits.
The japanese don't have sex, unless they are for the robots, impregnated by artifical insemination..
My wife is Japanese my children are 1/2 Japanese . I speak Japanese and a hand full of others. Other than stupid ass face covered with a bag what are you?
The Japanese are talking with China and Russia as they should be, Barak Obama's USSA cannot and should not be trusted by anyone.
"What, they gonna make a battalion of pregnant women?"
For Japan, probably not a bad idea.
Crank those civilized babies out!
I had the same WTF moment. Thumbs up.
Pssst 4 million yen, though.
they WISH they had enough pregnant women to form a battalion
Everyone should be preparing for war
Then they should buy F-16s.
But wait, there's more!!!! Act now, and we will throw in 6 each, F35's for every 0.5 Trillion FRN's you absorb into your liquidity sponge.
Our planes don't suck.
Really?
Our planes don't suck.
And you have to repeat it?
Hey, I went and gave him a downvote for each repetition.
Cuz it's fun.
Our planes don't suck.
Who are you trying to convince?
Now if you click your slippers together and repeat three times that, "There is no place like home." I just do not think that you will end up in Kansas.
And if you say "Beetlejuice" three times it is not going to send that naughty ghost away.
And I am sorry but our planes do suck.
Apparently the Chinese have already done that.
I would think that the F-35 would be the very last plane anyone would want to reverse engineer.
The F35 is a piece of shit. They only wanted 1 but had to buy 6 just to have a non-zero chance of getting one in the air at any given time.
To be sure. It can fly and it can fight, it just can't do both at the same time.
Can it crow? (@1:36)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6hmQwfEmzc
The Rand Institutes conclusions on these lemmons Can't turn,Can't climb and can't run
F-35 has the highest power engine of any fighter flying today.
It has the lowest drag of any combat loaded top tier fighter aircraft today.
It almost but not quite super-cruises on dry thrust with full fuel.
With full fuel it has a thrust to weight ratio of 1:05, so can climb and accelerate vertically immediately after take off. The F-35 can climb as fast or slightly faster than a fully fuelled F-16C with no weapons.
It has now demonstrated a comparable of better role rate, it can slam from 1 G to over 9 Gs just as quickly, it is much faster than an F-16 on dry thrust, has over double the range of an F-16 on dry thrust and videos on line show turns at least as well as an F-16 or SuperHornet, and can cruise higher and much faster than both.
It also has by far the highest internal fuel load and range of any attack fighter.
It has the most advanced sensors ever created and they're fully tested now and work.
It uses the most advanced tactical display by far.
It has the most advanced autopilot available that auto prevents terrain collisions, and can detect and fly the best vectors to kinematically defeat incoming missiles.
The most advanced munitions are being integrated on to it.
It has the most advanced tactical network communications and integrated electronic warfare capability of any aircraft today.
Almost all of the best equipped western air forces want F-35s to replace their existing fighters and attack jets and they want as many of them as they can afford to buy.
This should be a hint as to its capability and performance level.
The very same sort of hysteria occurred when the SuperHornet replaced the F-14s and a proposed strike variant of the Tomcat. All of the experts and haters screamed that the SuperHornet was absolute crap, totally useless, a slow timid sitting duck. Then former Tomcats pilots went through conversion and flew it in service then turned around and said it was way ahead of a Tomcat, much better in almost every respect, a far better fighter, much more manoeuvrable and reliable, and a very capable attack aircraft with excellent load-outs and strike range.
The same thing will occur as the F-35 of course as it replaces Falcons, Eagles and Hornets.
"... It looks as if the F-35 could meet its key performance parameter (KPP) requirements, ..." Aviation Week & Space Technology - Jan 15, 2015
So it is currently meeting or exceeding all of its set performance targets. It is in production in significant numbers and will be entering service in multiple western air forces over the next three years.
As for Japan:
They are buying far more than six. In the end they will probably replace most of the current fighter fleets with them, and/or supplement them with a superhornet variant.
The F35 is a piece of shit. They only wanted 1 but had to buy 6 just to have a non-zero chance of getting one in the air at any given time.
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Posted twice so it sinks in.
Great example of a boondoggle though. Oh, you want it to fly....that will be another half a Trillion.
Lessons not learned; history repeats...
for Japan, war in Asia for PTB,
either cancers or ...tribes wiped.
Sounds more like a bailout for US Miltary contractors. Most of not all of the expenditures are on US made Miltary hardware.
Kinda like the 7,000 uniformed dead in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I laugh at people crying about demographics in Japan. Old people there work longer and are more healthy.
Also, Japan has much better infrastructure and services than countries like the USA.
Reading stupid articles like this you can tell the author clearly has no understanding of Japan.
If you go and live there for a couple of years you will soon discover they are a xenophobic society when it comes to immigration -- but if you can brush that aside the standard of living is pretty good, salaries are decent and it has the same personal freedoms as other Western countries..
Last I checked we didn't have an untouchable caste (burakumin), whom no-one dares talk about. They are being forced by the Japanese mafia to work on the Fukushima clean-up, without proper protective gear.
Oh, and the longevity stats in Japan are a joke: a few years ago they sent government reps around to give congrats to their centenurians, and it turned out a huge number of them were actually dead (but their relatives were still pocketing their monthly checks). A lot of your "suicides" are really mafia murders for insurance money, but the local cops are not incentivized to look into them (crime makes them look bad, and they themselves are on the take).
And please google "rice ball man", the guy that Japanese social workers knowingly and intentionally let starve to death (the diary he kept as he died is heartbreaking) because he could not comply with their rules. They knew he was starving to death (and he did). Afterwards they said, "yes, we knew he would starve to death, but we felt we were supposed to enforce our rules."
Enjoy your Japanese propaganda; it's about as lame as U.S. propaganda. Women in Japan don't reproduce because it is a sick, scary, screwed-up place, but everyone puts a nice face on it because they don't dare do otherwise.
Very sad. I suspect since Lew has declared SSDI insolvent by 2016, that too will be the new "model" in the USSA.
Ah! The village people. I remember shogun. The english sailors got along great with the eta. Also 60% of the mafia yakuza is burakumin. But slowly the old ways die out and robots fill the void.
good history lesson...but I missed your point?
Propaganda I believe. What do you propose?
The Samurai have been replaced by men who wear panties. Bring plenty of tampons.
Your comment provoked me to wonder just what exactly Samurai wore for underwear. So I Googled "Samurai underwear."
Damn, we live in a strange world nowadays...
Spare the tampons and bring some Depends, the vajajays in Japan are too old and dry to accept a tampon
Yes. Japan is preparing for war, or at least a day when they will no longer be shielded under a US defense treaty. They are only starting in earnest as their military is still quite small.
China is moving their sphere of influence outward, and while both Japan and China need each other in terms of trade, neither would call each other a "close partner". The Chinese and the Japs hate each other.
I have been claiming that the Japanese need to (and will be) militarising in a big way since '10. Hard to imagine exactly how they will fund it, and there is an equity trade in there somewhere too, but hedge against currency risk. Just like Bass, the only way I see their currency supply going in the medium term is toward infinity.
Please. Spare us your bullshit. The US has been harping on Japan to increase military spending and join the US in spreading democracy since the Korean "Police Action."
The US is dumping expensive and useless hardware on Japan (V-22, F-35) while pushing Abe to build a new US base in Okinawa which lifespan extends into 2060s.
Japan is not preparing to defend itself sans the US. If anything, it has completely knuckled under.
Japan will go to war with China in the same manner Ukraine has gone to war against Russia...as the proxy goat.
I am merely stating an opinion. History will show which one of us is correct in hindsight. Look me back up in 2060 and I'll happily concede if I am incorrect.
I do not believe that the US as THE global military power has that kind of timeline left. I could be wrong though.
Well, hell, I predict the earth will no longer exist one day.
Try giving an opinion with a shorter timeline. You know long-dated puts are cheap for a reason.
US is post 400 AD (relatively) Rome and i defy anyone to disprove the contention.
Challenge accepted. Where are the Visigoths? I think you're 200-300 years to far. And I think you need to look at other empires to compare. Perhaps USA is more like Persia? Namely Cyrus timeframe?
I doubt they will need that long, my guess is their influence is already waning. Now they are currently still a military power, it is possible that they extend their grip on the globe through brute force and fear..
But I do not even see that much as likely. It could be a powerful empire feigning weakness, but if the USD collapses as a global reserve, the empire goes.
I've never seen a powerful empire feign weakness in the entire course of human history.
unless they are setting up a false flag for casus belli, which only needs to be 1 or 2 incidents and does not consitute feigning weakness on an empire level.
I have seen a lot of weak or formerly-powerful-but-weakening empires feigning strength though, that one happens a lot throughout history.
True. Hard to imagine what the world will be like in the aftermath of a sov. debt crisis. Broad civil unrest, regime change, volatility, etc. The US might come out on top again.
I do maintain that the US dollar being a global reserve is the keystone holding up the arch. If that gets dislodged, the Empire goes. Such an extensive military presence hinges crucially upon that one facet of the Empire.
Just noticed your user name dood. Stiglitz is a piece of keynesian shit.
Yeah, but I prefer Hayek to Keynes. I've never met a Keynesian who could provide a solid argument to sustaining Keynesian macro in the long-term.
Call it extend and pretend, or kicking the can down the road.. or just theory for politicians and bankers. Keynes never held weight with me.
Keynesian,Austrian,Capitalism,fucking socialism ah who cares anymore Bro just to many fucking people and not enough resources long term to sustain the whole shit show.
U seriously gotta go to the hospital & get ur brain examined.
Are u a chink or a baka-chon (stupid, trolling korean)?
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Buy stock in window factories!!!
Actually, the US did draw Japan into the war, as the Japanese sub that was sunk by the US was found 13 years ago. Good luck changing people's beliefes though:
Japanese Submarine Sunk At Pearl Harbor Is Found Published: August 30, 2002HONOLULU, Aug. 29— Like someone who has found a van Gogh at a garage sale, a research team on a routine dive near Pearl Harbor has uncovered a Japanese midget submarine that provides physical proof that submarines tried to infiltrate the harbor before the air attack of Dec. 7, 1941.
Six scientists in two deep-dive submersibles run by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory were engaged in the last exercise of the last training day of the year on Wednesday when they spotted the 78.5-foot, two-man submarine.
Some historians have long held that the destroyer Ward sank a Japanese submarine near Pearl Harbor about an hour before Japanese planes bombed the American fleet, but until now there was no proof.
The submarine is in excellent condition, said the research laboratory's acting director, John Wiltshire. It is in 1,200 feet of water three or four miles south of the harbor, torpedoes still in their houses, a hole in the conning tower. The remains of the two crewmen are believed to be inside.
''As soon as we saw it, we knew immediately what it was,'' said Mr. Wiltshire, who was on the surface monitoring the dive on video.
He said he heard his team yell ''Wow!'' through audio monitors as the image materialized on his screen.
''It's a very distinct shape,'' he said. ''It's 78 feet long, 6 feet in diameter, it's got a hole through it and two torpedoes in the front. It could hardly be more distinct. In its present situation it is absolutely, 100 percent, positively identified. Because there's no possible question it could be anything else.''
''The shot through the conning tower of this submarine brought the U.S. into World War II,'' Mr. Wiltshire added. ''And the captain of this sub is the first casualty of the war with Japan.''
The submarine, burrowed in a military debris field, has long eluded undersea explorers, including Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, who conducted a search for the Japanese midget in 2000. The National Park Service, which runs the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial, began search efforts in 1988.
The Hawaii laboratory, which is one of six national laboratories conducting underwater research, partnered with the park service, Mr. Wiltshire said, keeping an eye out for the submarine on its three or four training missions each year.
''We always tell the pilots, 'Now keep an eye out for the midget sub,' '' he said. ''The prize is if you can find the sub.''
Early on Dec. 7, 1941, the Ward was notified of a suspicious vessel in the vicinity of the harbor. It was one of five midget submarines trying to penetrate the harbor, according to historical accounts, and the Ward began firing on it around 6:30 a.m.
Finding the submarine confirms that shots from the Ward sank the vessel well before the Japanese attack, historians said.
''We've been talking about this incident that took place nearly an hour and a half before the attack on Pearl Harbor for 60 years,'' said Daniel Martinez, chief historian for the park service at the Arizona memorial.
''Now we have the tangible evidence of what happened out there in the dawn hours,'' Mr. Martinez said.
He said the submarine also added to a scant collection of Pearl Harbor artifacts. All but 3 of the 21 ships hit in the attack were returned to service, he said, and other damaged equipment was repaired or scrapped.
''The Ward fired the first shot of the Pacific war,'' he said. ''And this submarine now shows us where that shell landed, and how it sank that sub. We now have that artifact.''
Mr. Martinez said discussion of recovery was premature. Mr. Wiltshire said he could envision the site becoming part of the national sanctuary run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. American and Japanese agencies are expected to be involved.
Mr. Wiltshire said: ''Clearly it's a Japanese war grave, and it's a major, major historical site.''
None of the five submarines sent by the Japanese returned to their navy. The one found on Wednesday was the only one stopped by the United States. Of the others, one washed up on Dec. 8, 1941 in Waimanalo, on the other side of Oahu; one was found off Oahu in the 1960's; and a third was sunk in the attack. The fifth is unaccounted for.
''I think it's probably a hopeless case,'' Mr. Wiltshire said of finding the fifth submarine. ''But we'll keep telling the pilots training in the debris field there's one more left.'' --------------------
Steamship Wreck Identified
BOSTON, Aug. 29 (AP) -- Underwater explorers have identified the wreck of a 19th-century steamship that sank in one of worst hurricanes in New England's history, a disaster that prompted changes in ship design and maritime practices.
The steamship, the Portland, sank off Massachusetts on Nov. 26, 1898, killing more than 190 people, after it ignored storm forecasts and sailed from Boston bound for Portland, Me.
Its whereabouts were never firmly established until today, when the oceanic agency announced that the wreck had been found in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary between Cape Ann and Provincetown.
The wreck was first sighted in 1989 by Arnold Carr and John Fish, two underwater explorers, but they could not prove it was the Portland.
''I was pretty convinced it was the ship, but I didn't have evidence,'' said Mr. Fish, who was also involved in the current expedition.
Scientists estimate 192 people died on the Portland, but the exact number has never been determined because the sole passenger list went down with the ship. Only about 40 bodies were recovered.
Photos: An image from a video shows a Japanese midget submarine, like the model at left, that was sunk at Pearl Harbor before the air attack of Dec. 7, 1941. (Associated Press); (Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, via Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/us/japanese-submarine-sunk-at-pearl-ha...
How the fuck did that article indicate we drew Japan into the war?? At best all you've shown is very poor preparedness on the part of our military, and a breakdown in communications. I'm sorry I forgot what site Im on. It must have been a mossad plot.
yer, fascinating article which dosproves your conjecture.
If the USA sunk a jap submarine one hour before the attack on pearl harbour, well then that attack - so remote in the middle of the pacific - was clearly well underway long beofre that sub was sunk. the sub was more likely there a bit early to support in the japanese attack.
not to say i disagree with the ZH article - the US was clearly itching for a proper pretext to enter the war.
How funny those days seemed. They wanted credible 'pretexts' to send their nation to war. Quaint by todays standards
Where the fuck do these morons come from. You first claim it disproves my conjecture, and then go on to explain how it proves my conjecture. I should be more kind, since I come here now, mostly for the morons.
P.S. It wasn't a ZH article
It appears you are quite familiar with morons...
I hate it when someone mischaracterizes what I've written, and he/she didn't even do it well. However, it's nice of you to come to the rescue. Who says white knights are dead? Cliched but not dead.
It reads to me that he was responding to the poster of the article about the sub. Clearly the article disproves that poster's point as the sub was part of the attack.
Yes, you should be more kind, especially when you appear to be wrong.
It looks like you're right, and he made a simple mistake in his reply, and I apologize to squid if that's the case.
When Roosevelt cut off Japan's oil supply, it might have been considered a provocation or act of war by the Japanese. Look up your own history. It's there if you care to know.
And today, by trying to kill off the yen Japan is sticking its finger in the Chinese eye; although it is its old axis partner- Germany- that is mostly getting hurt.
He gave a specific article as proof that we drew Japan into the war, but the article didn't prove that at all, and that was my point. Do I need to type slower so you can understand? Did we draw them into the war intentionally? I don't know but our actions certainly contributed to their decision.
The Japanese were over running southeast asia, pretty much unchecked.
Restricting the Japanese ability to attack other countries was a mild policy decision compared to actually using force.
It was for the glory of the Emperor that the Japanese military continued to expand his realm.
Actually, the very first shots of the Pacific war were fired by British shore batteries in Malaya.
But it needs to be kept in mind that the US/British/Dutch embargo on Japan came as a result of Japan's seizure of French Indochina from the prostrate Vichy government. Japan had in fact been at war since 1931 but it was only in 1941 that the Allies finally decided to stop selling oil, scrap iron, etcetera to further the Japanese war effort against China once the occupation of Indochina made it clear that they were bent on further expansionism.
Never stopped that expansionism until they entered full scale contractionism either. Plus they were never signatories of the Geneva Convention nor did they abide by their Naval agreements building the two largest battleships of World War II.
I'll never understand the attack on Pearl Harbor. Interesting that Japan didn't attack Russia in support of the Germans in June, 1941.
also interesting that Germany declared war on the US after the Pearl Harbor attack. Germany was not under any obligation to do that.
Granted World War II wasn't over by 1942...sure was by 1943 tho.
Worst alliance in History was probably Japan and Germany in World War II.
Another interesting fact about Pearl Harbor is that the US broke the Japanese code BEFORE the Pearl Harbor attack. The code break was made famous because the US was prepared for the Midway attack, but the fact that it was broken before Pearl Harbor seems to be kept quiet. It does appear the higher levels knew it was coming and let it happen. Also a mystery is why McArthur in the Phillipines was aware of the Pearl Harbor attack yet did nothing to prepare his forces in the Phillipines with several hours warning. The Phillipines were attacked and hundreds died with heavy asset loss when the good General knew the attack was imminent and had hours to prepare yet did nothing.
That description really parallels what might happen today. Japan is at loggerheads with China, as in the period prior to WWII.
That description really parallels what might happen today. Japan is at loggerheads with China, as in the period prior to WWII.
Say WHAT! China was in the middle of a civil war.
sorry , tara, you can't get away with it.
japan's actions in the pacific region date all the way back to cammodore perry's visit to shimoda in 1854. when he threatened japan with the black ships, japan knew it had to act. the meiji period in japan incorporated all that was western(european. japanese considered the usa barbaric culturally and historically) into japanese socirty from an industrial revolution that grew the economy faster than the usa to the colony model of empire to build the greater eastasia prosperity circle. until the chinese story the meiji period in japan was the fastest growing economy in the history of the world.
after the sino-japanese and russo-japanese wars the west first tried to rein japan in diplomatically effectively "giving" japan the northern pacific region since thw western powers had south and southeast asia in their colony collection already, thus the conquest of manchuria and korea. this was followed by trade embargoes against japan. as japan strengthened the west trried to impose a limited navy upon japan so that the brits and usa would have a lot more ships in the pacific.
with the usa supplying military aid to chiang kai chek through vietnam, japan "attacked" indochina to cut off the trade. it was at this point that fdr turned up the pressure and blocked dutch shell oil from indonesia getting to japan with a complete trade embargo and assets seizure. dems fitin words in any language.
Forget it. She's reciting from the CIA-sanctioned historical record, you know, the ones in US schools. She is not the least bit interested in contradicting views.
BTW, as for the Russo-Japanese war, it was both encouraged and financed by the West. US advisers were all over the place at the time teaching Imperialism. The Emperors of Japan, though much beloved by the average Japanese, were symbols, from the child Meiji emperor to his physically weak son Taisho to Hirohito (Showa). The current emperor Akihito is probably the best post restoration emperor because he admits he is nothing but a a show horse used to give credibility to the politicians and bureaucrats.
East Wind Rain, baby.
The path to the Pacific War (WWII for all of those who think everything written in American grade-school history books is accepted - like MasterCard - all over the world) began with the Treaty of Portsmouth and Teddy Roosevelt was merely the first of two Roosevelts to screw Japan.
And, seriously, you think the Nobel Peace Prize has any value or is based on actual events?
Hmmm, I wonder who it was who won the Nobel Prize for arranging an end to the Russo-Japanese War?
For that matter, I wonder which nation launched a sneak attack in 1904 on a country with which it was supposedly at peace?
You changed your first post. My earlier comment was in response to the Nobel Prize comment.
As for your second point, did you ever wonder who encouraged the Japanese to war against Russia, who did not offer any objection to the attack on Port Arthur, and who, indeed, financed the effort?
You should read more than the CliffsNotes (American edition) version of history.
Gosh, I had no idea the Burma Road was in Vietnam. What was I thinking?
PS-- the Washington Naval Treaty was a huge victory for the IJN since it cut down the size of the navies of the two principal potential opponents and imposed a complete moratorium on additional American fortifications and bases in the Pacific. Japan got to keep both of its Nagato-class 16in gun battleships while compelling the US to scrap its fourth Colorado class (used in the Billy Mitchell experiments). Japan of course ignored the 10,000 ton limit on cruisers, fortified its own bases in contravention of the treaty, turned one of its Kongo class fast battleships into a "training ship" and then turned it back into a dreadnaught as soon as nobody was looking, built both the Akagi and Kaga to plus-33,000 tonnage sizes forbidden by the treaty (as did the US with the Lexington and Saratoga, incidentally, by claiming the battlecruiser exemption for improved anti-torpedo protection even though they were no longer battle cruisers) and did a host of other things to make it clear that they were cheating even before they formally withdrew from the treaty.
Nope, you sure know more about it than lil ole me.
Must you hedge the truth about everything? The Washington Naval Treaty was a slap in the face against the Japanese who rightly saw that it would allow its navy to become powerful enough to help America and Britain fight their enemies while never allowing Japan to successfully defend itself against the Americans or British forces.
In no way was this treaty a huge victory for the Japanese.
That treaty was right up there with the League of Nations snub.
They are keysnians at the end of their rope, so, obviously, they are preparing for war.
Japan doesn't have any money for a war. Nor anybody under 30 to fight it. If there's any war going on with them in the forseeable future, it's as a proxy for the US, not because they think they could do it on their own and certainly not because they could count on us to back something they started themselves.
Obviously we're talking about China here. And there's no way they start shit with China unless the US is involved in the planning from the beginning.
I agree that they are too broke to fund a war without some sort of outside funding (and even then, hard to imagine where that would come from.)
As for "nobody to fight", they have the tech. and the brainpower to minimize the human capital element.
Besides which, I do not actually believe they are building their armed forces for war. I believe they will build them as a deterrent against the rising Chinese military force.
The end game is probably going to be the Japs falling under the Chinese sphere of influence, but there will be a lot of chest-beating in the interim.
Edit: Also, don't forget, most of Japan's debt is internal. They can and will seize assets/inflate away/negotiate write-offs without anyone staking a claim on the sovereignty of their nation. Dangerous and volatile? Likely leading to civil unrest? Yes. But they aren't exactly in the same boat as Europe on this one.
Some kind of " outside existential threat" to Japan's sovereignty (a war or some such) might be exactly what is needed for the government to convince their people that debt write-offs are necessary.
Japan has been working feverishly on AI and robotics, so manpower may not be an issue. I'm actually looking for the BIG breakthrough in that field to come from them. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Yeah, imagine somebody hacking your drone army. Woudn't that be peachy ? Say, they manage to change the intended targets...
What is there to hack in an autonamous robot? Communications wouldn't be any more of a problem for them than they currently are for normal military units.
Seriously do you believe that the tech is all you need to win a war ? Why then USA never won war against Taliban in Afghanistan ? (Yes I consider they never won here).
You need MEN and ball of steel on the GROUND to truly win a war.
And China have both the tech and the men (and an excess of men that need to find wives) Jap girls will be perfect for them.
The U.S. won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq, and won it quickly and easily. The problem was the occupation, and the attempt to win hearts and minds.
Lulz, that's why you still "fight" (euh you retreated) and now it's a matter of time before Taliban are back.
Iraq: the Iraqi soldiers haven't put so resistance because Iraqi believed that everything will be better when the dictatorTM will be removed. They literally allowed you to enter.
(And it was at a time when your army wasn't full of gays and women...)
Fact: you never won anything since WWII (and even here it was the Soviet who weakened Hitler well before your arrival) but Hollywood cliche are strong.
ISIS are just at one step to take another US base (just a few days ago here on ZH.)
Americans are great at invading but suck at occupation, but to declare "we won a war" you must occupy (and having the enemy stop fighting and giving up weapons.)
Time to go out of your American exceptionalism: a well motivated enemy ready to die for his ideals can bitch slap an invader better armed technologically !
The funny deal is that you still want to poke the Bear and the Dragon...
Americans are great at invading but suck at occupation, but to declare "we won a war" you must occupy (and having the enemy stop fighting and giving up weapons.)
You can destroy just fine without occupation. I don't agree with Colin Powell when he said we broke it we bought it. I would have been fine leaving Afghanistan without a stone upon a stone, but that was never going to happen. Success is a breeding ground for future failure, and after Germany and Japan we believed we could work magic, when we really just got lucky. Ironically, we would have had better luck if we followed the example of our enemy, Islam, since they are old hands at forced conversion,. The American public, however, is far too squemish for those tactics.
its a proxy for US defence this purchase probably be flown by Yanks the planes... the original IT twerps for the messed up F35 compromise plane will need to be on hand for fixes all the time.
Same as Trident in UK... Britain pays to be US's aircraft carrier near Russia... Britain cant fire it without notifying the US and requires US satelites to guide it. Ergo it is a de faccto US system paid for by British tax payers, under the ruse of national defence and deterrent that another nation actually controls and without whom it won't work.
Same model here.. extortion money extracted from Japan, for becoming a US base near geopolitical rivals, under the ruse it is national defence, which Japan will print keeping them in the debt escalation and currency destruction game at a CB level... bitch owned, cartel in force..
Japan is too broke to sart any war.
If it had money, it would already have had 4 carrier battlegroups.
This is a dangerous prognosis, though Japan would have a looong way to go in preparing for any major armed conflict.
There is a HUGE different between defensive and offensive strategies and tactics.
Just preparing troops for actual real-world offensive operations would take years (if success really matters to TPTB).
Just replace the word "Japan" in McCollum's memo with the word "Russia", and yes indeed, history repeats itself. Now that Japan is the US #1 vassal stste in the Far East, we can allow the Japanese their bellicose tendencies. If proxies bleed for the New American Century, so much the better for the neocons who want to drag this nation down into the swamp of tyranny.
Just like Ghost in the Shell. Nah the subliminal of Japan becoming a major weapons manufactorer has been wished upon for a long time.
Do we get Gundams now? They already have power armor.
Make no mistake. Japan just made a 5bn bet that the US will not be there when they are needed or called upon.
No Disagree... not with the mandatory service contracts with that fall apart shyte F-35 they haven't.. they just signed away a steady line in upgrade and fix money whilst US beta tests a compromise plane on real customers and makes them pay for the fixes.
Guess this lays to rest what nation provoked/assisted/perpetrated 9/11
Think a little out of the box on this one a theory -
In my 2015 forecast I suggested we will have a militirization frenzy from all nations. As a trader I pointed out BAE Systems shares are due to go up on HVF Theory by 80%.
Seems Japan is in full ape spend mode.. and US defence contractors will get large chunks of this new mega budget passed.
I always suggested that Abe was a US puppet he came back in to power out of the blue on the 'earthquake' that destroyed Fukushima.
This event saw them withdraw from nuclear power which geopolitically hurt Russia who was supplying their Enriched Uranium for all their plants. Later the Suadi & US Fracking industry placed the squeeze on Gas & Oil to make the economic war multipronged.
I can't rule out teutonic weaponry in the earthquake event, a man made Tsunami smashing into a nuclear power station masked any nuclear fallout from the subterranean nuke as being that of destroyed Fukushima Plant origin. The US has discussed regularly utilising such weapons with other western agencies, and the CIA routinely accuses Russia of weather weapons which is an indicator of that which it does. Wacky as this sounds google teutonic weaponry.
Japan was brought to heal and the strong Yen reversed policy under ABe to a currency destruction QE policy, with his BoJ head Kuroda bring this central bank inline with the policies of the rest of the globe. This masks inflation as all basis of comparisons between currencies are deploying co-ordinated and occasionally simultaneous currency destruction so it goes unnoticed for longer.
Its the damn Germans again:
I knew you couldn't trust those fuckers around nuclear plants!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
HELL NO!
America! FUCK YEAH!
I'd rather see Japan and Germany reawaken their warrior spirits than continue to watch the daily drama that is Team America: World Police - Fast Forward To Destitution!
Yeah, maybe they will dig up Hitler and Hirohito, and get this potty started
That's not quite what I was suggesting, but +1 for the Strawman Leap! lol
Japan need to reawaken their ancestral culture and stop being westernized and getting destroyed by that same westernization. And they don't need to threaten the neighbors do it.
Japan could always weaponize the nuclear fuel it has in various reactors across the country. Fukushima building 3 had plenty of MOX before the reactor blew up. Whoops.
We are all preparing for war..just not against each other this time but against the elite.
I really don't have the patience to read about Japan too. Wtf is going on here???? The US is gona blow Japan up too? Or Japan/china? Someone summerize for my lazy ass i'm at capacity for the day.
20 years ago I couldn't tell you where Saudi Arabia sat in relationship to Iran, certainly did not know where Ukraine was except near Russia, Pakistan not even on my map, 9 out of 10 Asian countries unknown unless their name was Vietnam. I was getting along just fine in my small world of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. And then all this crap started somehow. WTF?
Can Japan handle Fukashima and a mushroom clous at same time is the question. They must b getting desperate to get a war started
What I can't figure out is if Japan will ever get a chance to die fighting China or will they first succumb to the ongoing radiation poisoning of their nation ... and the whole Northern Hemisphere for that matter.
Thanks GE & TEPCO.
The economic stimulus does not come from the waging of war, it comes from the 'arming-up'...I can certainly imagine a desperate nation reaching for that military build-up growth...the only problem is soon everyone is going there, and we have a bunch of desperate and now fully armed-up nations, all ready for the next thing...the actual war itself.
But I can definitely see all these tensions as being a way for governments to get the excuse they need to arm-up...it's the only thing left that they can maybe squeeze some growth out of.
Abe is just a puppet of US Neo-con, military industrial complex.
Look at the list of the aircraft. They are all US made.
Who benefits from the war b/w Japan and China? US military industrial complex. Save US$. etc.
It's that simple.
Japanese and Chinese hate each other? Ordinary Japanese and Chinese don't hate each other. But Neo-con controlled Japanese medias are trying to make Japanese hate Chinese.
"Japanese and Chinese don't hate each other."
Not true.
I know Chinese nationalist and they despise what the Japanese did to their people in Nanking.
The hatred has been carried down to the younger genrations.
Yes, Chinese Nationalist hate Japanese. so as Japanese nationalist hate Chinese.
"Ordinary" Japanese and Chinese don't hate each other.
Goering's quote comes to mind.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
I don't think you saw what happened to Chinese driving Hondas after the last little spat over some rocks in the sea.
Perhaps you are speaking whistfully of how things should be?
The hatred has been carried down (bye what/bye whom?) to the younger genrations.
Fuck China!
Distraction by the TWNese.
They, KOR, and HKG just rcvd their dismissal notices by CHN and JPN announcing their direct currency exchange trade deal. Remaining days that they can stay in their previous role as middlemen became numbered.
That, and the fact that the TWNese were looking to take over any resources that can be obtained over those Islands (JPN and CHN negotiated over those Islands before - unresolved when they restored relations) - allowed for an Anti-Japan Rally to be used effectively.
That's why there's a growing movement to kick out the ingrate foreigners from Japan. They've every right to kick out some TWNese from JPN after that Riot in CHN.
CHN/JPN Trade was on pace to overtake the USA/JPN Trade by a Factor of "2" just before the Banking Crisis/Island Dispute.
I've seen the TWNese play foul within JPN Companies here as well (to be fair to others - against gringos and all - in the USA). While many of them kiss ass while living/working/supplying JPN, it's a different ballgame elsewhere.
As for JPN prepping for a War - it's more like that the JPNese are in a crossroads - to remain a Vassal Colony to the Anglo-American Five-Eyed Hegemony and actually committing Troops and Ordnance in a Future Five-Eyes War (KOR, TWN, South China Sea, ME), or becoming more independent with its Defense/Foreign Policy and taking possible conflicts on a Case by Case Basis.
Team_USA Neocons and Parasites want the Control over a Vassal State. That allows them to operate their Policies at will with little opposition. Funny to see many Catholic/Jesuit and Proselytizing Cult types playing the power game over there.
Asia Pivots making a turn for the worst. "Cultural Events Placement" of Christmas Celebrations on every TV Channel was disgusting to watch - when the Country has less than 1% of it Population as Christians.
Here's a Cultural Joke - made by an old School Acquaintance (who's half Japanese):
Q: Why are Single Japanese Women called "Christmas Cakes"?
A: They go on "sale at Half-Price" - the day after their 25th (birthday)...
Despite workforce/career trends - there're still social (and biological - some are sadly finding out too late) pressure issues burdening them to get married while they're young, able, available (, and obviously, likely to have low mileage and light emotional baggage).
It's the same 'round the world. I just get to run into all kinds of basket cases here in SoCal - being (set up and) introduced to Single Mothers who drifted through life (or later rumored to have done some Pr0n previously) more than one Dinner Parties does get annoying. Horrible thing to do to a Bachelor Dinner Guest.
Japanese government at odds with the governments of S Korea, China, and Taiwan. The nations that send the most tourists to Japan are S Korea, China, and Taiwan.
Says more about the situation than anything. Sans government, everybody would be doing just fine.
Actually, Japan & Taiwan are like brothers....you can see it on Youtube videos.
Taiwan donated over $300million during the Tohoku Earthquake back in 2011....the most behind the USofA.
I'm not so sure about chinese and japanese getting along so well. My wife is japanese and there seems to be a general disdain for the chinese in many of her japanese circles. My observations are that they regard the chinese as: cold/cruel/inhumane, filthy/crude, etc, etc. The japanese seem to have a much more refined culture and take more pride in themselves. Just my observation....
wtf ?
Mitsubishi can go back to build a new version of the zero. They could build their own and prepare for war.
The elitist all have their nuke bunkers in the southern hemisphere. Their private jets are waiting.
Their thinking they'll sit back and make enormous profits off of all the destruction and rebuild.
Another ZH article that should be ignored.