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okaawhatever

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1. Japan is a whole different situation from Ukraine. We have had a treaty with them for protection

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2014, 12:05 AM

Apr 2014

since WWII. The Bucharest Memorandum signed in 1993 w/Ukraine the UK and Russia was only for protection in case of nuclear attack and wasn't a full treaty.

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