Donald Trump questions why US protects Japan
Trump said he loves Japan but was skeptical about the security arrangements with the country.
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History. That's why. What a dipshit
Historically, Japan is really good at handing Russia its own ass. Whenever you're ready Putin.
The rapidly aging population of Japan is in no position to fight a war, and wouldn’t be even if it had a 10 year head start.
They have a Gundam!
It also doesn't help that the US dismantled their military...hence the protection.
Its not exactly the worse thing to have a dismantled military when its been so long. If japan was to start a military now, they arent encumbered by any old generation of equipment and weapons. No office fights of seeing if we should try to maintain and use the old stuff or get something new. They can just start with latest and greatest stuff.
Yeah, and their economy is suuuuper strong right now, enabling them to make such investments 😅
Eh, they did in Russo-Japanese War but got curbstomped by the Soviets in 1945.
I am not worried for modern day Japan however considering that they are a paranuclear state and Russia doesn't care about invading Japan.
I see a Russian amphibious invasion of Japan even without America, go poorly. It would probably make the SMO look like a picnic in comparison.
I don’t know the capabilities of the Pacific Fleet although I think it has more capability than the other fleets. But to use Black Sea Fleet as an example, when Black Sea Fleet was reinforced with landing craft from Baltic Fleet it was given capability to land 2 BTGs.
So I’d assume that a non reinforced Pacific Fleet can carry 2 BTGs (take with grain of salt, this is pure guessing) using their amphibious landing craft which isn’t much and unlike China, Russia don’t have a merchant fleet that was purposefully made easy to retrofit for amphibious operations.
Wut
The context of the Soviets "curbstomping" them is that they'd lost two million soldiers during the invasion of China and then half of the survivors got sent to try and stop the American and Allied island hopping campaign which obliterated their navy.
I mean, it's kind of funny as a reversal of Americans pretending they beat Germany by themselves but Japan had literally already lost the war. They in fact had a non-aggression pact with Stalin signed in 1941 that they honored because they were already spread too thin to fight them even in the middle of Operation Barbarossa.
Fun Pacific Campaign Fact: no one talks about it over the German Wolf packs but the Allied fleets did literally the exact same thing to Japanese shipping from their bases in the colonial holdings. They literally couldn't move their armies between the Home Islands and the mainland in 1945.
Yup, the Kwantung Army was not at its peak in 1945.
However that doesn’t make the invasion unimpressive in my view as for example, the Soviets got an entire tank army across a mountain range using nothing but winches and cables. The Soviets advanced across an area the size of Western Europe in mere days.
Yeah by August 1945, Japan’s navy was sunk and America had air supremacy over Japan. Japan was more or less defeated, Operation August Storm not occurring would not have changed that.
