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Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸
@mrjeffu
The term "military power"(軍事大国) is not a term that Kishida or his government would use because it sounds like something out of Japan's militarist past. However, Japan's military strength is obvious to international observers and I don't think Time was necessarily wrong here.
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Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸
@mrjeffu
At the Hiroshima G7 Summit Kishida will likely say some nice words about peace and the need to abolish nuclear weapons. However, Japan's security policy is anchored on the deterrence provided by a strong military (that legally isn't a military) and the US nuclear umbrella.
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Peter Durfee
@Durf
Third richest national economy in the world spends the third most on [thing], it's crazy I tell ya There are definitely holes to be poked in any Nagatachō argument but a bit more nuanced understanding would help (as in all media coverage of anything, basically).
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Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸
@mrjeffu
If an economic power doubles defense spending and in the process surpasses the UK, Russia, Germany, France, and India, all of which are can be fairly considered military powers, I don't think it's wrong to call it one too. I don't think it sounds bad in the English headline.
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Chris Israel Barker
@downpressor
Eh, the term is ambiguous and could be applied to any nation with a standing military. The use of the term has connotations of being able to project force and that’s just not what the SDF is for. Loaded term that should have been avoided.
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