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Japan on track to become world’s third-largest defence spender (www.euronews.com)
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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

gundam when

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I hope soon we are gonna need it to fight the army of Ai ubernazi robot

[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Something tells me the Japanese far right won't be fighting against the Nazis this time either....

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Ai does not exist.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean I get it. Kinda sucks the us has become so unreliable and I hope japan and germany can be leaders in democracy and fair international rule of law.

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

and I hope japan and germany can be leaders in democracy and fair international rule of law.

Oh boy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How original.

Though i must admit that as a german the irony that we former villains are now increasingly considered potential saviors of the liberal democracy is greatly amusing to me. ~~And pretty scary in light of our current political tendencies~~

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah they're great. Their domestic politics are great. Not at all fascist. This is fine. Everything is fine.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

I have to say it says third but it still seems about 50mil us and russia is supposedly twice that so I don't see how this makes them third. Honestly india, taiwan, japan, and south korea if they would form a mutual asia defence pact would be about on par with china. maybe they could even convince australia to be a part of it or make it a pacific form of nato and rope in canada.