The two WWII countries that lost, and went low key for decades, on military strength, are now back reaming and exporting those arms….
An American President pushing the world to NOT rely on a American Defense umbrella against China and Russia helps this be so…..
Japan…
The Japanese government moved on Tuesday to allow the sale of more weapons abroad, in the latest shift away from pacifist policies imposed after World War II, as it grapples with rising security threats from China and a rapidly changing global order.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her top officials, at a meeting in Tokyo, reversed longstanding limits on the sale of Japan-made weapons overseas. The move comes days after Japan welcomed more than 30 NATO envoys for a visit meant to show stronger ties, and after Tokyo sealed a $6.5 billion deal to supply warships to Australia.
Ms. Takaichi said in a post on X that the change was necessary in an “increasingly challenging security environment.”
“No single country can now protect its own peace and security alone,” she said.
Ms. Takaichi, an outspoken critic of Beijing who rose to power last year, is seeking to shore up Japan’s defense industry and to build a more diverse network of allies, with increasing uncertainty over the reliability of its main partner, the United States. Japan hopes that easing the export rules can help strengthen deterrence in the region by showing China, North Korea and Russia that democratic countries around the Pacific are building a global arms supply chain….
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Germany…
Germany surpassed China as the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter between 2021 and 2025, according to a new study from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The paper said Berlin accounted for 5.7 percent of global arms distribution, slightly ahead of China’s 5.6 percent share.
The ranking places the US first with 42 percent of global exports, followed by France at 9.8 percent and Russia at 6.8 percent.
Analysts linked the shift partly to increased European defense production following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The study also found that Kyiv became the world’s largest importer of major arms from 2021 to 2025, accounting for 9.7 percent of global arms imports.
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Ukraine, Egypt, and Israel were among the main recipients of German military equipment during the period, boosting Berlin’s foreign military sales by 15 percent compared with data from 2016 to 2020.
SIPRI said that nearly a quarter of Germany’s exports, or about 24 percent, went to Ukraine as military aid….
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