JAPAN RE ARMEMENT

 

Few people have noticed, but Japan's armed forces have become as strong as they were during WWII, This is a hard fact since 2018, this game changer has occurred over several years and in a quiet manner

When the second World War was over, Japan was prohibited for having military weapons,

(airplanes carriers, long range bombers, missiles) which would allow for any further attacks.

Today, Japan's military Navy has 20 attack submarines, and 39 ballistic subs (8 of which being equipped with the Aegis combat system). It also deploys 3 Helicopters carriers. Further the Japanese government has decided to equip itself with an aircraft carrier. The Japanese aircraft carrier is planned to play a defensive role, such as the elimination of an immediate threat. Critics note that once it is deployed, no one will be able to stop it from being used in an offensive role.

Japan's negociations with the USA shows that they wish to replace 107 of their older planes, (F4 and F15) with the new generation F35A. They also wish to procure themselves with 40 F35B, which is the naval version of the plane, capable of vertical take off and landing...

The Japanese Navy has recently added two Destroyer/Helicopter carriers of the Izumo Class to their fleet.

Each ship weighs 27thousand tons and has a length of 248 meters (roughly 275yds).  They are equipped with anti-sub and anti-ship systems, and have the capacity to carry 400 Naval infantry and their equipment. These ships can easily be adapted to the operation of 18 F35B each, instead of Helicopters, giving them capabilities similar to the US's Wasp or America class landing crafts.

All what was necessary for Japan to arm itself with the capacity of an expeditionary force, was to  expand their own Navy. This became a reality in April 2018 with the establishment of the Military Brigade  ARDB, based in Sasebo, near Nagasaki.

Japan has now an antidote to hostile landings and foreign aircraft carrier groups. Yet, as China, North Korea and Russia are all Nuclear capable. Japan has concluded that their interlink with the US ballistic defense, and American reassurances are not sufficient, to alleviate the threat of missiles attacks against its own territory, specially potential Nuclear attacks.

Japan's decision to strengthen their own defense is natural and not surprising. Japanese are using their very advanced technology to fill the existing gap. The special relationship between Donald Trump and the late prime minister Abe were a corner stone of this evolution. Japan understands that in a last resort, it should count on itself for its own defense and that of their allies. China is certainly not pleased by this development, but Taiwan is. Taiwan feels a lot more comfortable dealing with their old Japanese friends rather than an unstable American ally, who might be tempted to use them as a proxy in a conflict with China.

This is a hard lesson from the current conflict taking place in Ukraine. The Taiwanese want to remain at peace, they do not want a CCP diktat, but they also do not wish to be pawns to the chicken hawks in Washington DC

WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY LIVING IN A DEMOCRATURE

 Posted by Frenchie    

What is a DEMOCRATURE might you ask?

This terminology which has been common in most of Europe over the last decade, is used for a Dictature which pretends to hide its excesses by keeping the exterior appearances of a democratic system.

During the past century we saw numerous examples of rampant dictatorial regimes.

From the bloody Dictatures of the "people" as embodied by the regimes of Stalin, Mao, the Kim dynasty and Pol Pot, to the Nazis of Germany and the Fascits of Italy, Hungary or Romania, without forgetting the terrorist version of the Banderists of Ukrainian collaborators with the Nazi regime, and all the small tyrants of Banana republics from Central, South America, Africa, the Carabeans, south East Asia, and the tyranical oligarchies of the Middle East. From the ashes of world war I and its immense trauma were born dictatures which would make the horrors of that war pale in comparison to the evil done under the guise of these philosophies.

One of the shining lights in this dark period, and exception to these atrocities was the approach of most western countries, which promoted a democratic system of representation, with shared common values, strong constitutions, and the idea that all men were created equal. Or for lack of better words, democratic systems. Which in itself is a gross misrepresentation of the word. Real democracies being no more than the fingers on one's hand, around the world. Knowing full well that they themselves are in a precarious state, because of the negative influences of their next door neighbors..

We, the citizens of the United States of America, have lazily rested on the delusional idea, that we continued to be the beacon of this ideal, around the world.

Our long lost exceptionalism, only being a memory rather than a reality.

Yet, dangerous individuals, groups of individuals and organizations, within our own country, and of course outside of our country have been hard at work trying to destroy the remnants of a once great idea of government.

The continued downfall of these ideals has accelerated over the last 30 years.  On the 1st of September of 2022, the elected (and disputed) 46th President of the United States shamelessly delivered a speech, pretending to save the soul of the Nation. I looked high and low to find a similar type of speech which demonized, villified, denigrated, condemned, or otherwise accused a large part of the country to be un-american. I had to go back to the hay days just prior to the beginning of the war between the States, to find such vitriol and animosity. So much for the man who campaigned as a unificator, and a breath of fresh air for democracy.

The likes of Dr Goebbels, Mussolini, Papa Doc, Idi Amin Dada or Joseph Stalin would have been proud to deliver such a hateful speech . Unfortunately it was a sitting President of the USA, a man who has pretended to be what he was not, throughout his long political career, a known plagiarist, and pathological liar. Yet despite his well established history, few could imagine that he would cross that invisible Rubicon, which no President before him had done.

We were exposed to an angry, bitter old man. A failed leader, who has transgressed a multitude of our laws and trampled on the Constitution since his rise to the highest position in our Republic.

Using reverse accusatory, in a manner which would have made Joseph Stalin blush with envy, Joseph Biden tried to justify the weaponization of our Federal Justice System, along with the politization of our leading law enforcement agencies and intelligence apparatus. 

Declaring there was no place for political violence, while totally ignoring the speeches of hatred spewed by leaders and members of his own political party, which led to an assassination attempt against a member of the Supreme Court, the vandalization, arsons, and other destructions of churches, political offices and other non profit organizations, without any consequences for the culprits, who act as a private militia for the DNC.

President Biden, who is by the way the most hated American President in World History, the most laughed at, the least believable; pretended to have moral high points that neither the Pope nor the Daili Lama would dare pretend to.

Using the false flag operation of January 6 2021 portrayed as

an insurrection against the legitimate government of the USA, to justify the months long militarisation of the Capital of our Country, the imprisonment of countless bumpkins as white supremacist terrorists, and the isolation for long periods of time of political opponents, just like the communist dictators of the Soviet Union used to do.

Finally President Biden argued there was" too much in our Country that is not normal". Accusing  shortly after the Maga crowd of the GOP to be a danger for the Republic.

While he was right that there is too much in our Country that is not normal; he probably was not talking about what the average American think about.

* An unchecked border, which is left wide open for illegal immigration, human and drug trafficking

*A justice system that leaves arsonists and terrorist from the far left roam free, while parents attending school meetings are labeled terrorists  by the Attorney General

*A revolving door mechanism in liberal cities, that let repeat criminals  go free, and re offend, many times in violent crimes. 

*An unbridled spending never seen before for the most radical policies meant to be social altering tools.

Finally the President  accused his political opponents to push radical social policies, while he, his party and his administration are imposing suicidal green policies, gender bending programs, CRT in our Schools, our administration and our armed forces.

Of course the President totally omitted to mention the galloping inflation,( which he pretends does not exist) the daily violence in our streets, the proxy war he is pushing against Russia, and the criminalization of political opponents. While Joseph Biden pretends to fight for democracy, he actually pulls us into a democrature. While doing so, he is unashamed and unapologetic, the definite traits of a true dictator.