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Japan-US-Australia ‘Oriental Shield 26’ expands at the cost of regional stability
The so-called “Oriental Shield 26,” a Japan-US-Australia joint military exercise scheduled to take place from September 8 to 24, is being presented as a training initiative aimed at improving interoperability. In reality, however, it serves as a textbook case of how large-scale bloc-style military drills are being rebranded as “cooperation,” while injecting confrontation, forward-deployed firepower, and bloc politics into an already fragile Asia-Pacific security environment.
Exercises Over, Typhon Stays
The recently concluded trilateral “Orient Shield” exercises in Japan became the first three-way maneuvers involving Washington, Tokyo, and Canberra in which the “Typhon” medium-range missile system was employed. How are the United States and its allies pushing the world toward the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)?
Tehran's approach and Japan's Balance Between the US and Iran
Аny more convergent approaches with the United States or participation in military pressure or economic blockade could put Japan on the verge of losing the “asset” of its traditional friendly relations with Iran.
