Comments by "115islands Compass" (@115islandscompass6) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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In the first place, it was the United States that had provoked war on Japan for a long time, before attacking the Pearl Harbor.
Since 1927, the United States began ordering Chinese warlords to conduct anti-Japanese campaigns in exchange for financial and arms support.
That was in order to disturb Japan from expanding its interests in China through friendship and business.
The Chinese warlords sabotaged Japanese commercial facilities, looted/raped/massacred ordinary Japanese residents, and attacked/kidnapped&slaughtered Japanese soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was captured and detained in the Xi'an incident in 1936, was forced to stop mopping up the CCP and concentrate on the anti-Japanese operation by Zhang Xueliang, who was supported by Britain and the United States, and the CCP, which was supported by the Soviet Union.
This anti-Japanese terrorist operation developed into big conflict, the China Incident, with the Japanese army.
And the China Incident was prolonged because the United States continued to support Chiang Kai-shek despite Japan's repeated offers of peace talks.
As can be seen from the fact that the purpose of Japan entering French Indochina with the consent of France was to cut off the supply route of Chiang Kai-shek from Indochina to China, the U.S. support was the one of causes of the prolonged China Incident.
Then, the United States cornered Japan by embargo because of the China Incident that the United States set up behind the scenes.
The Roosevelt administration thought that if it participated in WW2, it would be able to get out of the Great Depression, make more money, and hopefully gain world hegemony with the dollar.
But the American people were against the war, so FDR severely cornered it to make Japan make a preemptive attack.
Incidentally, the United States was preparing to start a war against Japan from the United States in China in case Japan did not make a preemptive attack. This attack plan was called “JB. No. 355.”
Almost 100 years ago and today, the American way is always the same.
To me, Zelensky only looks like Chiang Kai-shek 2.0.
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After the war, the United States forced Japan into pacifist constitution written by Americans, destroying Japan's social structure and recreating them to make it easier for the United States to continue to rule Japan. They were included a kind of ethnic cleansings.
And GHQ demanded Japan to pay about $ 5 billion in stationing expenses at the national expense of Japan. So, while many Japanese were starving to death, the Occupation Army soldiers enjoyed luxurious lives while bullying the Japanese. In addition, GHQ occurred a huge amount of debt to Japan through compensation for "the former colonies of Western countries invaded by Japan".
The exchange rate in 1945 was 50 yen / $, but the United States changed it to a fixed rate of 360 yen / $.
I think that the purpose of this is to make all Japanese cheap workers and get long-term interest rates by repayment of debt.
Although not officially announced, Japan is said to have completed the repayment of its war debt from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
From this period, the United States began to destroy Japan's economy and industry through the Plaza Accord, the Japan-US Semiconductor Agreement and the super 301 article and so on. At that time, Japanese companies that were shattered by US "economic sanctions on Japan's economic miracle" were acquired by US and Chinese companies.
After that, when Japanese companies made profits, dividends began to flow to overseas investors. Shareholders then demanded that the company keep employees' wages as low as possible and distribute as much profit as possible to them.
In other words, no matter how much a Japanese company makes a profit, the profit is changed to a structure that foreigners receive. For this reason, Japan's economic colonization is progressing, and the Japanese are becoming poorer.
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