Quote Originally Posted by ensign_lee
hey secular monk:

second in military expenditures as a percentage of GDP, you mean?

Because I find it hard to believe that little itty bitty Japan spends more on military expenditures than, oh...I dunno...Russia?
you know japan is somewhere aroudn the size of california? I think its bigger, but that gives you a decent understanding of its size. So it might look little, but thats a lot of room. And I dont know if youve been to japan or know much about it, but those guys are packed in like sardines. If you think what you get for 1000$/mo in new york is small, you get the equivilent to a small walk in closet in tokyo. I could go look up thier population, but Im lazy, but its not as small as you would think. Also thier GDP is way up there. They are the leading supplier of high end tech, and a huge supplier of cars world wide.

I guess its a common conception, post-wwII, that japan is this itty bitty tame island nation. However think about wwII, they were some bad ass mother fuckers, they gave us a strong run for our money.



As for S. Korea, yes we are allies but I know that S. Koreans dont exactly love us. So I dont know how willing they are to do our dirty work. Maybe if we stayed out of it and japan and S. Korea got together or some crap. But I dont know, maybe they would be happy to reunite all of korea and bwn N. Korea once and for all.