Tokyo to consider pre-emptive strike strategy via RT.

via RT...

The potential threats Japan might face at the moment come from the Asian continent.
China not only has world’s largest army, but has been dramatically modernizing its military forces over the last decade. Pyongyang is an old adversary of Washington, rivaling American dominance in the Pacific. As for Japan, it has territorial disputes over the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu in Chinese tradition) with China, meaning that Washington’s and Tokyo’s interests coincide.
On the other hand North Korea, that strives to achieve a nuclear power status, has been openly threatening Tokyo with destroying US military bases on Japanese territory.
To deal specifically with territorial disputes at remote islands, Japan reportedly plans to establish a Marines task force. Purchase of unmanned surveillance drones is also planned to monitor the country’s maritime borders.

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Ok.  This is an alarmist statement.

IF and I mean IF several of our adversaries decided to coordinate their actions then you would see the US having to pick between which allies to support.  With a force as small as the one that is being projected comes to pass then we won't even be able to fight a holding action in one theater while we win the war in the other.  It'll be a lose lose fight unless our allies are able to do it themselves.

Its almost as if we want to push countries into the nuclear weapons camp.  This is going to be an interesting time...we are truly cursed.