Democrats Vote To Give Trump Obscene $717 Billion Mílítary Budget

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Hiku said:

Pemalite said:

Allot of countries also pay the USA in Billions of dollars every year in their mutual defense agreement... I mean, trump has only whinged about that how many times?

In regards to some countries... The USA has bases in Australia because they are trying to counter China, we also give you a ton of support with information, infrastructure, food, fuel, air-space... And we even help train your military... And we are also the USA's main conduit into the area, it's of a strategic importance. - So we are SAVING you money.

We don't actually need you here, you can't actually invade and control all of Australia successfully, regardless of what movies might try and say otherwise.

I would imagine the same is applicable for a ton of other nations as well.

Add to the fact that it was USA who forced Japan to only have an army for self defense, which barred them from “collective self-defense” — aiding friendly countries under attack — and thus were far more constrained than those of other nations, I wouldn't be talking smack about Japan's "reliance" on USA on this subject either.
USA forced them into that situation. Understandable immediately after WW2, but not in this day and age.

Apologies if anybody has already addressed this topic, but I thought I'd take the chance before reading the next 50 posts. I saw this on Tee Vee on the HBO around Feb-March. It though it was a good piece. You may find it interesting too. To be honest, aside from nuclear proliferation, I would like to see Japan set loose from it's chains, and allowed to build it's military as they see fit.