innonimatu
the resident Cassandra
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What people now call "peacekeeping" is invading countries, just doing so with a convenient excuse which can be easily sold to the public at large.
If it is an excuse, what do you think is the real reason behind the peacekeeping-mission in Congo?What people now call "peacekeeping" is invading countries, just doing so with a convenient excuse which can be easily sold to the public at large.
Not if conducting it under the terms of traditional peacekeeping. Which also brings a very low risks to soldiers.Japanese men shouldn't be used as cannon fodder in the Congo. Peacekeeping is as much of a waste as invading a country.
If it is an excuse, what do you think is the real reason behind the peacekeeping-mission in Congo?
It's cheaper just to buy off a few warlords.Ensuring adequate access to the vast mineral deposits by foreigners?
In most modern day missions, yes. But when the term was first invented it usually meant that the UN would move their forces between the two fighting countries' armies, usually with the permission of both sides. It really was keeping the peace instead of fighting war with an international mandate.What people now call "peacekeeping" is invading countries, just doing so with a convenient excuse which can be easily sold to the public at large.
All reactor-grade plutonium can be used in nuclear weapons, as US tests conducted in the 1960s confirmed. It would take around 8kg of such plutonium for a Nagasaki-strength explosion.
Note: you are probably thinking of Iran's uranium enrichment. Japan uses plutonium, all plutonium is weapons grade
Japan has a network of fast-breeder reactors and has developed them intensively over the last decade.
The thread name and poll options... Luckily I chose what I intended.
This. While the UN fights the warlords, several countries including all members of the security council have "business relations" with them.It's cheaper just to buy off a few warlords.
Japan may decline to build fission bombs in peacetime, they certainly have the moxie to slap strategic weapons together on short notice if threatened.
...lol if you look at their Police it is a military they have @#$% tank....WHAT POLICE FORCE HAVE TANKS COME ON
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You actually have to ask?
If anyone is actually confused: This is Texan police during the operation against that Mormon-descended sect a few years ago.