HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE? Japan’s Navy Is Getting Aircraft Carriers and Stealth Fighters — and China Isn’t Happy. “Prickly feelings aside, once the Marine version of the F-35 became available, there would be nothing stopping Japan from reinforcing the flight deck and almost instantly turning their “destroyers” into light aircraft carriers armed with fricken stealth fighters — and that’s exactly what Japan is doing.”

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