(07-18-2018, 11:26 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: One thing to watch is Japan's military build up. This includes new fighter jets, aircraft carriers, and land based anti-ship missiles.
Should a democratic Japan, armed to the teeth, end up in some replay of its war with America -- this time a dictatorial America with no friends -- Japan will maul the American regime so badly as to destabilize it. The Japanese prime minister just might get to dictate terms of peace in the White House. Maybe they would annex Alaska as a new prefecture and establish commonwealth status for Hawaii, and install some Canadian-style dominion out of Washington, Oregon, and California.
The Japanese legal system treats criminals harshly, and it would treat American war criminals as harshly as America treated Japanese war criminals in the last war. Japanese gangsters frequently emigrate for easier places in which to do organized crime, and not because the cir destinations are richer.
A hint: the aircraft of WWII were propeller aircraft, and not jets. Missiles were not part of the Japanese arsenal in WWII. Japan is not a country to mess with as a military power.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.