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Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

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American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.

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