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  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    give it three years before Japan remilitarizes

    :farquaad-point: this poster believes the japanese constitution! japan's been remilitarised since 1954

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Three years before Japan tries to invade mainland China and gets flattened in 20 minutes by the PLA.

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      yeah, but tbf they could be a lot more militarized. like how the usa is obviously fascist, but is still getting more fascist through supreme court rulings or whatever.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I've spoken to a few people campaigning to preserve the Pacifist clause (Article 9) who say that this is actually a very unhelpful argument because it allows the Article 9 abolitionists (Abe and his ilk) to argue that Japan already has a military in practice and abolishing Article 9 is just amending the constitution to reflect reality.

      While Japan's self defence force is undoubtedly a military, Article 9 still prevents it from having purely offensive weapons like long range ballistic and cruise missiles capable of striking into the DPRK and China.

      The idea is that if the left agrees that the self defence force is a military, then it's more likely to result in the unshackling of the military rather than the abolition of the military.