Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Dilemma Over Japan-U.S. Alliance" video.

  1. Many social issues are related to US pressure and influence, and they are a declining power that can easily drag one into conflict. The problem is that Japan must build it's own system if it is to be independent and it has hostile neighbours to contend with. Not to mention that America does not relinquish its toys, America at this point will destroy the Japanese economy if given the opportunity, as that is their MO in occupied territories, but Japan likely couldn't deal with sanctions, this is not to mention the problems internal to Japan. If Japan wants autonomy a realignment towards China and Russia and closer relations with the third world will be necessary, but this should not include concessions on immigration or defence like the US are insistent on. Japan must increase it's birth rate and accept it has a failed economic structure and rollback the obsession with corporate jobs, Japan needs farmers and the like as much if not more, not jobs that don't exist. They will need to rollback state spending and return the social system to something more Confucian, ending the American inspired social norms and moving back to a model of arranged marriage, multi-generation households and many children. The will also need to expand the military into a first rate one, especially focusing on naval and air defence. People are saying that North Korea and China are hostile cultural, while this is true and will be a pain it is not an overwhelming factor, it persists because they are international rivals, if there is a realignment the governments of those countries will probably pull the Orwellian 'we've always been friends of Japan', if Japan becomes a neutral power they will likely just start to lose interest in such matters, though they will not like military expansion. Such a policy change will need about 50-100 years to properly see results, as Japan needs to cultivate the economy, reform the social system and birth continually larger generational cohorts, however if they remain a vassal over that same period into the future Japan will not just become a husk, it will no longer be Japan, at the moment American policy is so destructive that I'm generally surprised that China and Russia make any effort to oppose it, why intervene when your opponents is heaping up their funeral pier.
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