A source within Japan’s prime minister’s office said Thursday that the country needs nuclear weapons, remarks that deviate from the country’s long-standing non-nuclear principles and could trigger backlash at home and abroad.
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Ooh, I’ve got another Tom Lehrer song for this…
🎶🎵 First we got the bomb and that was good 'cause we love peace and motherhood. Then Russia got the bomb but that’s ok because the balance of power is maintained that way. Who’s next?🎵🎶
I wonder if her fascist tendencies will cause someone to doohicky her like Shinzo Abe
🎶🎵🎶We will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact it is to know. With complete participation in that grand incineration, we will all go together when we go.🎶🎵🎶
Who is this? Gregory corso or something?
Tom Lehrer
Edit: I actually got the end of the verse wrong.
She can’t even get the Finns who share her ideology to not treat her like shit.
They’re probably right — historically, Japan has had a defense-only army and no nuclear arsenal, and depended on the US to defend it through treaties.
The current US administration has demonstrated that those treaties are likely worthless today; Japan can’t depend on the US to come to its aid if another country attacks them.
historically, Japan has had a defense-only army
Recently Japan has had a defense-only army.
Historically, Japan tried to conquer all of Asia.
The only reason they didn’t possess nuclear weapons is because they hadn’t been invented yet.
Sure, maybe. I would like to remind everyone that this woman is a member of an insane cult called Unification Church which control politics in many parts of Asia. Not much better than Islam, Christianity or Judaism ofc. but I don’t think we need more of these lunatics running around.
Every country should.
Yes. What the Ukraine war showed everyone was that defense treaties are meaningless if they aren’t enforced, and therefore every country is on its own.
The best deterrent against an invasion is nuclear weapons, and so every country should stockpile as many nuclear weapons as possible.
And you two just made every American second amendment and Marxist armed proletariat argument on the world scale.
Japan opposed iranian nuclear program and supported the sanctions. Such hypocrisy
Oh that’s rich.
Iran will get them long before Japan does. After what they did to China… it’s only a matter of time. China knows it, Japan knows it and sees the us slinking off that side of the world stage.
Just like at a hood party Japan is getting knocked out before they leave. Their boy been attentive but he seems to be leaving with that chick over there… China is perking up and no way they are gonna let em slide.
If you don’t mind the allegory.
Another right winger who wants to ignore history. So surprised.
Crazy they want nukes now, considering how much they hated the first two they got. Everyone’s a critic.
