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Why Japan Is Facing Pressure To Return To Military Research (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: China's growing nation status has Japan reconsidering its 70-year old ban on military research projects, as Japanese defense circles actively seek to take advantage of the country's vanguard position in robotic technology. Pressure from the government is also mounting, as authorities try to find means to bring university researchers into the defense fold — particularly to meet the challenge of a more aggressive Chinese military. Funding cuts in Japanese higher education, combined with a weakened economy and governmental austerity measures, may make the allure of military funding irresistible to researchers and academic institutions.
The US doesn't start fights. It imposes itself into fights it has no reason being involved in. Totally different.
What? We actually create enemies and then attack them. The precise opposite of your assertion is true.
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Actually, Ukraine had a treaty where both Russia and US guaranteed its territorial integrity in exchange for post-Soviet nuclear disarmament.
This is somewhat misleading. The treaty Budapest Memorandum stated that both Russia and the U.S. would respect its territorial integrity, not guarantee it. Russia broke this agreement, but there is nothing in the treaty stating that the remaining signatories had to come to Ukraine's defense*.
There are the 6 obligations outlined in the treaty:
1) Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty and the existing borders.
2) Refrain from the threat or use of force against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
3) Refrain from using economic pressure on Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine in order to influence its politics.
4) Seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, "if Belarus/Kazakhstan/Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
5) Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
6) Consult with one another if questions arise regarding these commitments.
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*#4 would have a bit more teeth if the part about nuclear weapons was left out.
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