Japan, Germany expand military ties as German warship sails through region
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Axis redux: Italy to train Japanese and German fighter pilots at NATO base
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Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said Friday the country will step up military cooperation with Germany in the Indo-Pacific region as he welcomed a port call by the first German warship to visit Japan in about 20 years.
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The frigate Bayern is visiting Tokyo after two days of joint exercises with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Samidare in the Pacific Ocean amid maritime activities by China in the region.
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The operation follows similar moves by other European countries including Britain, France and the Netherlands. Warships from those countries recently conducted joint naval exercises in the East and South China seas.
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Russia and China will have to rethink their no alliance doctrine, seeing that there is an alliance directed against them.
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I don’t understand how a country that was nuked twice and whose capitol Tokyo was firebombed could possibly enter into a military alliance with anybody. The Swiss seem to be doing just fine being perpetually neutral.
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Switzerland has been a NATO partner for almost 30 years. Sent small contingent of troops to Afghanistan under NATO command. Its warplanes regularly participate in NATO air combat exercises. I post material on NATO’s absorption of Switzerland on this site regularly.
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I was unaware that Switzerland had been absorbed by NATO. Its tentacles are reaching into every crevice searching out new cannon fodder,
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In addition to 30 full members (up from 16 22 years ago), NATO has 40 official partners. Members and partners are in all 6 inhabited continents. As NATO also has a partnership with the African Union and has a liaison office at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, NATO’s members and partners together are at least 120. Every single European nation (excluding microstates like the Vatican and Liechtenstein) are fully under NATO’s boot except for Belarus and Russia….People may want to ask themselves why they don’t know such historically unprecedented facts; why no one talks about them.
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