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.

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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    • kiku@feddit.orgEnglish
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      13 days ago

      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.

      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        13 days ago

        And you two just made every American second amendment and Marxist armed proletariat argument on the world scale.