05-31-2018, 10:39 PM
Back in the 1980s, Japan threatened to develop or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons in the event that North Korea got them. There were no complaints from the US< Britain, China, India, Pakistan, or the (then still-extant Soviet Union).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.