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Per Knudsen's avatar

Excellent analysis. But I suspect the real reason Ishiba stayed away was to avoid getting sucked into committing 5% of GDP on defense, which all the NATO members sans Spain have now done.

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Craig Peacock's avatar

Thank you Per, a well spotted error and now corrected.

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