Posted on 09/11/2016 8:05:12 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
“””They believe Japan did nothing wrong during their militarist regime before 1945. They justify all actions at the time, including Pearl Harbor Attack, Nanjing Massacre, brutal treatment of allied POW’s to name a few.”””
Kinda makes them my enemy then .......
They believe Japan did nothing wrong during their militarist regime before 1945.
Oh, my!
I seem to recall there was some kind of seizing of a government building, a couple decades ago, which ended when the leader of the group that had staged the takeover ordered one of his thralls to behead him. Literally chopped his head off, to end the standoff.
Same people or something different?
Likewise to you. You were the guys I had to turn in my outdated ammo to when I was promoted to the armory. Smooth bored a couple of M-16s on the end of the rack while trying to avoid you guys and the accompanying paperwork.
Yeah.... ADR’s ammo destruct requests for burning small arms up to 40mm HE/HEDP were routine duty. 40mm an up went on the demolition shot. Usually Ammo Apes dealt with the end users like you guys and called us only if it was damaged, then we got involved.
Hope yer well, at peace and happy..... you earned it !!
I think I confused a couple different incidents. According to wikipedia There was a building seized in 1977 and i’m pretty sure that is the bulk of what I was recollecting.
To attack Japan - or threaten to. China needs the "threat" of Japanese aggression to take their public's mind off the impossibility of maintaining 7% growth and the inevitable economic decline they are facing. US-operated THAAD systems in South Korea pose a threat - however slight - to their ability to threaten an attack on Japan as a diversion to help keep the Communist Party in power.
China has zero interest in a military confrontation with South Korea - indeed, they are now likely to support the South in any hot conflict with the North - but South Korea is also right in the way of any missile-rattling they might like to engage in against their ancient adversary.
Found it. Yukio Mishima in 1970.
Depending on where the (Northern) Polar Jet Stream is at, at the time of the fight, you may have to re-evaluate that. This especially if the situation “builds” such that more than a handful of nukes are involved, and / or China and Japan get involved.
Even now, if you eat a fish out of a body of water in the US not contaminated by a local source, most of the mercury in that fish is likely to have drifted here from China, via much less efficient transport.
All the above does not consider the Nork’s developing missile capacity, and the possibility (I’d call it a likelihood) that under duress, they might do something “nuts”. Yes, the Norks are mostly blackmailers, but, still...
I refer you to: http://www.nti.org/learn/countries/north-korea/delivery-systems/
In which I find the most important bit of information to be: “This prompt sequence of development is remarkable, and historically unprecedented for a small developing country.”
He was also gay.
I'm pretty sure most Japs believe that they never did anything wrong, not just the militarists.
Japs are quite skilled at pretending nothing is or was wrong. For example: Issei Sagawa.
Japan was an aggressor nation, which was reborn as a victim nation after the war.
You describe it perfectly. They didn't remember how their doctors did experiments on Korean and Chinese people. Neither did they remember that upon their return the Japanese public treated these doctors as heroes. Some of them became the founders of prominent medical companies.
So they’re as delusional regarding reality as our Leftists? That’s quite a trick!
Years ago, NK guards at the border filed a complaint about “US hand-held nuclear weapons,” at the DMZ.
An investigation turned up a stainless steel thermos bottle that had been spotted by the Norks.
Yes, I had mashed the 1970 and 1977 incidents together in my memory.
Let me ask you this. Why can some sovereign countries have nukes while other sovereign countries like Pakistan, and China can? What is the international law qualifier there? The key is to activate our nuclear war head production, our delivery systems and our star wars and completely waste who ever actually moves toward us but these are sovereign countries and if we can tell them what to do then China can tell us what to do. We can’t dictate anything to these countries.
You are not even listening. What defense protects us from fallout carried here by the winds, from a nuclear conflict far away? What defense protects us from a nuclear winter, which is assured in the long run, with your approach, letting everyone “arm up” with nukes. Eh?
If the US and it’s allies are not the biggest, baddest dude on the block, then the only hope is that if China (say) replaces us, IT will be the enforcer, and would do so responsibly. Good luck with that.
Now as far as your question goes, legally, responsible countries sign on to non-proliferation treaties, largely because they realize that in a serious conflict, if they have nukes, they’ll get turned to glass.
In a more general sense, the powerful countries tell the weak ones what to do, all the time. That’s how it works. And it’s why we cannot become #2.
The blast zone for even the largest nuke is approx 5 miles. The heat and radiation is 21 miles radius — With wind about 32 miles in the direction of the wind cutting the other direction to a radiation zone to 10 miles.
Where was all the down wind death and dying after Eniwetok ?
43 nuclear bombs in atmosphere exploded over 10 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enewetak_Atoll#List_of_nuclear_tests_at_Eniwetok
Absolutely , not one down wind driven death 6000 miles from even the largest Hyrdogen bombs. ZERO. All that is baloney.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.