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In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been turbo-charged by Donald Trump’s tough treatment of traditional U.S. allies, which has some in Tokyo and Seoul calling for a reassessment of their non-nuclear policies.

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hey Canada...We should be thinking about this, also.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago

I've been saying that since 2008 as a teen but man was that an unpopular opinion. We're a very naive country imo.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I wish but.. Do you think they won't invade us at the whiff of nuclear armament?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't trust them not to invade us without that protection, anyways.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Agreed. I just think that would make it certain.

If we could get nukes secretly I'd be all up for it.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If Japan and South Korea go through with this perhaps we could purchase some from them (or elsewhere, UK, France, hell, even China) to cover us while we work on a domestic program.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Buy a loaded submarine on the hush-hush and sail it to Vancouver? I like it.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Building nukes is like unionizing; ideally you don't go public until you already have your nukes/union

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Gonna be tough to hide when all our computer systems run on Microsoft, Google, or Amazon platforms.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

Realistically, I can't see a situation where the UK wouldn't agree to sell to Canada if Canada felt it was needed.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do what isreal did and lie about it while building one

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't think we could realistically hide it from their agents but yeah, totally. That'll probably be the way if our gov't decides to do it.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I want to joke "oh, like Iran!" but I don't want to make razad explode