Particularly amid a sense of growing instability in the era following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fiscal policies in the West and Europe have started to lay significant impetus on Guns, alongside allocations made towards strengthening domestic industrial bases, social welfare systems, and diversifying supply chains.
Such a trend is particularly evidenced by growing defense budget outlays coming out of a pacifist country like Japan which has constitutionally abandoned its right to war or maintain military capabilities that amount to war potential.
Japan's defense buildup which commenced in 2022 enters its third year in 2025 with 8.7 trillion yen having been allocated to defense spending. This is part of a broader push to double military expenditure to 2 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2027, in alignment with defense spending standards set by NATO. As a nation located geographically near both.
Russia, a country which has been growing increasingly hostile, Taiwan, and China, Japan sees itself as being in dire straits. Japan's dramatic turn to defense in this regard is indicative of a larger ongoing process of military mobilization that major players in the geopolitical chessboard are avidly engaged in.
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