ARTICLE 9. (1) Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
(2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA
I know Australian Internet is slow as fuck but the Japanese were also blocked from having an army and they already have one again.
>Conscious of their responsibility before God and man,
>Inspired by the determination to promote world peace as an equal partner in a united Europe, the German people, in the exercise of their constituent power, have adopted this Basic Law.
>united Europe
You guys get it?
>germany fought europe and russia
>was allowed to have army almost immediately
>japan fought usa
>was cucked hard, wasn't allowed to have army, still has some "self-defense forces"
usa is the most mean and vindictive country ever. also i think they didn't consider japs as real humans too
>>78303733
Japs aren't humans. They're like Russians minus the krokodil addiction.
>>78303764
>the krokodil addiction
krokodils are cute
>>78303843
Would you fug a krokodil?
>>78303044
no idea why cuckmany wasn't put down the same way.
>>78303865
...only if the krokodil gives me consent!
>>78303901
They were initially, but then the Cold War escalated and both sides realised that any invasion would come through Germany, so both East and West Germany were rearmed to fight for NATO/Warsaw Pact
Their armed forces are bigger and stronger than ours.
How many wars has Australia declared in the last seven decades? Not including being brought along as America's thrall in to undeclared conflicts.
I'm not saying that their Constitution isn't disgraceful, but let's face it: they may be weak de jure, but we are a de facto laughing stock.
We can't be comfortable making military banter until we have put our God-given uranium in to nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. I, for one, shall feel more than comfortable when the said missiles have wiped the Chinese devil off the face of our Earth.
Perhaps we could even invite Tojo's bug-eyed monkeys (liberated, of course, from the strictures of their ridiculous "pacifism") to join that party. I'm sure they'd enjoy it.
>(2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
>will never be maintained