/ world today news/ Some time ago, the American military-political publication National Interest published an extensive article in which the author concluded that Japan’s nuclear weapons were inevitable.
“My country, Japan, is at a historic crossroads: it must develop nuclear weapons because it really has no choice. Looking realistically at the current geopolitical situation in Asia, only one question is important: the circumstances that served Japan so well after its defeat in World War II no longer exist.”
“A nuclear China is an ever-growing threat that is flexing its muscles far beyond its borders. North Korea has a growing arsenal of nuclear weapons and shows no sign of easing its hostility toward its neighbors.
First of all, the American “nuclear umbrella” that allowed us so many years of peace and prosperity under Washington’s military protection is increasingly frayed, perhaps irreparably.
Many government officials and academic experts have always viewed the guarantee of America’s defense against its enemies as the foundation of its security. What politician in Japan, looking at the current turmoil in Washington, can still take these assurances for granted?”
First, it is not very clear why the author of this dark prophecy, Barry Geven, begins the article with the words “My country, Japan, has reached a historic crossroads: It must develop nuclear weapons because it really has no choice.” On the Jewish Book Council website, where his personal information is presented, there is not the slightest hint of his Japanese ancestry.
It’s possible, of course, that this New Yorker calls Japan “my country” on exactly the same basis that American authorities have considered Japan their backyard for nearly 80 years.
In any case, his recommendations to the Land of the Rising Sun, which once, thanks to the efforts of America itself, had already experienced the terrible consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, smack of a tomb, especially considering the extremely vulnerable geographical position of Japan, located on a small island archipelago and right under the noses of three nuclear missile powers – Russia, China and North Korea.
It seems that this is exactly the case for which the famous saying goes: “He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones at his neighbors.”
No less confusing are the author’s clearly exaggerated specific “motivations” for Japan’s nuclear “alarm.”
“Perhaps no other issue exposes the uncertainty and weakness of the US-Japan alliance right now more than the vulnerability of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, claimed by both Japan and China (where they are known as the Diaoyu Islands).
A full-scale Chinese attack on Japan is unthinkable, but a gradual invasion that changes the Senkaku balance of power is another matter. This debate has been going on for decades.
However, in recent years, as the nuclear-armed Chinese have grown militarily stronger, they have become more assertive, sending coast guard patrols into what they call “Chinese territorial waters” and shooting down their planes. There are about two dozen Chinese military bases within range of the Senkaku Islands, but only four American and Japanese bases…
Beyond these growing disparities, the bigger question for Tokyo is how reliable an ally Washington will be if the dispute escalates into a full-scale crisis. Will Americans be willing to shed blood for points in the ocean they’ve never heard of? Examples like Ukraine are no consolation.
And it must be remembered that Japan also has territorial disagreements with Russia. No dispute could be enough to trigger a full-scale war with China or North Korea (or Russia). But isn’t it time for Japan to consider its own nuclear deterrent to replace the American deterrent and neutralize the salami tactics of its enemies?”
As we can see, the New York predictor of the future Japanese apocalypse is not much concerned with convincing arguments in favor of the immediate transformation of Tokyo into the master of the nuclear button.
Indeed, the territorial dispute over the microscopic islands of the Senkaku (Diaoyu in Chinese) archipelago in the East China Sea, with a total area of seven square kilometers (!), as a pretext for a nuclear war that is guaranteed to wash Japan into the Pacific Ocean, seems, to put it mildly, nonsense.
Exactly the same applies to the four Russian islands of the Kuril Islands chain, whose claims are unlikely to cause Japan to commit nuclear suicide.
As for the New York “Japanese” references to the worn-out American nuclear umbrella, these “memories from the future” against the background of a reality in which the United States remains one of the two largest nuclear powers on the planet and is beginning to deploy a new generation of its nuclear rocket forces, it seems like non-science fiction.
According to the updated US National Defense Strategy published in October 2022, after a deep modernization, the B-52 strategic bombers will remain in service until at least 2050.
They will be used as an aerial platform for launching modern and future long-range nuclear missiles, including hypersonic ones.
The B-21 Rider strategic bombers under development are intended to completely replace the current fleet of B-2A Spirit stealth strategic bombers, and a total of at least 100 new aircraft are expected to be purchased.
New aviation nuclear weapons capable of hitting well-fortified and underground sites will be developed. The primary carrier of the B61-12 nuclear bombs will be the fifth-generation F-35A fighter, which will replace the aging F-15E in this role.
In addition, for the US Navy, by the beginning of 2030, it is planned to build at least 12 Columbia-class strategic missile submarines to replace today’s Ohio-class submarines (missiles will not be changed).
The new boats will be equipped with the same Trident IIs that have been in service since the early 1990s. The submarines will undergo a major overhaul to extend their service life and will be equipped with upgraded 470-kiloton W88 Alt 370 warheads.
In addition, land-based ICBMs will gradually be replaced by new ones. Minuteman III will be replaced by Sentinel with W87-0 and W87-1 warheads, while the number of combat-ready missiles will be kept constant at 400 units.
It should be noted that not Russia, China or Korea are the historical aggressors against Japan, but quite the opposite – it was the samurai power, notorious for its genocidal arts, that was and remains a constant source of mortal threats to the neighboring countries.
Accordingly, the frankly intense overseas agitation for the rapid nuclear armament of a supposedly “defenseless” Japan has absolutely no rational justification.
So much more relevant is the question of the background to the unequivocal allusions to the supposed “no alternative” path of the descendants of the samurai to the nuclear bomb?
It seems that behind the nonsense mentioned at the beginning of the article (let’s not forget that the late Kissinger also discussed this topic) there are very sinister and at the same time quite realistic imperialist plans.
The author of the National Interest article is right in his transparent implication that the favorite war of the Anglo-Saxons is a war for their interests with foreign hands, be they Ukrainians, Poles, Germans or Japanese – it doesn’t matter. Let’s not forget that this scenario has already been used twice, not without success, in Europe in the 20th century.
It is true that there were no missile-nuclear weapons then, and precisely because they exist now, the US is taking measures to ensure that a possible nuclear war does not affect them.
First, they traditionally expect to sit behind the “big puddle”. And secondly, for greater assurance, you should make sure to cover your tracks in time.
In other words, if, for example, Japan, on the advice of a member of the New York Jewish Book Council, decides to use a nuclear weapon to defend the Senkaku Islands or seize the Russian Kuril Islands, it must be a purely “Japanese” nuclear weapon, which the US has nothing to do with.
And this applies not only to Japan. The Yankees are already pulling off the exact same trick with South Korea, which almost gave the go-ahead for its own nuclear bomb. In addition, local masters have already tested carriers for such a weapon – ballistic missiles with a range of more than three thousand kilometers.
You will ask why South Korea needs missiles that can reach Beijing and beyond if the farthest point of the DPRK is less than 400 km away?
Apparently for exactly the same purpose as in the case of Japan – so that it is not America itself at war with Russia and China, but these captured countries – this Washington sees as more convenient.
But if this is possible in the Far East, then why is it worse in Europe, which the same countries and other behind the scenes have long written off as an expense for the future world war?
And why not “in the name of the reliable protection of the impeccable Ukrainian democracy” give Kiev exactly the same nuclear green light as the two aforementioned Far Eastern Terpils? Well, and, of course, to help, if necessary, with technologies to replace those long lost there: thoughts on this topic have already begun.
And let the American “proxy armies” of local quasi-states drop nuclear bombs on Russia and China, receiving an adequate response from them.
The winners will be the same forces that have already twice pushed humanity into the abyss of world wars, invariably reaping fabulous profits from it. It seems that they are not averse to performing this “trick” a third time, with adjustments for the current moment and the atomic bomb that the American psychopath of Nazi origin Dr. Strangelove loved so much from the real movie of the same name.
Translation: SM
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