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The decline of the American Empire and Japan's predicament

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・The Ukraine War has been reported in mass media in Japan, the United States, and European countries as “a war of aggression where Putin, evil like Hitler, suddenly attacked democratic Ukraine without any reason,” but the real cause of the Ukraine war that began in 2022 is the relentless eastward expansion of NATO by the American government. When the Bush administration was in negotiations with President Gorbachev to consolidate the Cold War, they demanded “I want the Warsaw Treaty Organization led by the Soviet Union to be dismantled in order to consolidate the Cold War,” and in response to the demand that “it is OK to dismantle it, the situation where NATO forces advance to the Russian border, America will not expand eastward to NATO”, Secretary of State Baker “will not expand NATO even 1 inch eastward I promise that,” he said. Furthermore, the US government made promises to the presidents and prime ministers of England, France, and Germany, and the Russian government believed in this promise and dismantled the East-West Cold War structure, but the Clinton administration broke this (p31)

・As a result of America's armed intervention against Islamic countries from 2001 to 2024, approximately 4.7 million people died in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia. If you add the 1 million people who died due to sanctions against Iraq and the 1.3 million people who were victims of the Ukraine War, it means that over 7 million people died (p40)

・Americans have lost not only religion but also “classical education,” “codes of values,” and “moral standards,” and what many Americans have set as the purpose of their lives are the three P's “power, money, and pleasure” (p62)

・Until the 1920s, in order to enter an American university, the ability to read either French or IS German and either Greek or Latin was required as basic academic ability. It was required to learn the ability to read and understand classical Western works in two Western European languages other than English in high school, but “specialist scholars who have acquired knowledge in specialized fields but are poor in spirit without culture or education” have increased since the 1970s (p63) Elliot, who served as president of Harvard University for 40 years until 1909, thought learning Greek and Latin was unnecessary, and it is a compulsory subject for college admission Removed from (p75)

・Certainly, America abolished slavery and is proud of it, but in reality they are bringing “slavery” out of America just by quitting domestically (p109)

・The English first settled in Jamestown in Virginia in 1607, and two years later, in 1609, they broke promises with indigenous people = Indians, expanded their territory, and began massacre of Indians. Ten years later, in 1619, black people were imported from Africa as slaves and agriculture based on slavery began (p129)

・Even though the American middle class tax burden rate is over 20%, the founders of Amazon, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, etc. only pay an effective tax rate of about 1% in the process of increasing their huge assets (p138)

・The current white population under the age of 24 in America is less than 50%, and this trend will accelerate more and more in the future, and the white population of America has been steadily declining and aging since the 21st century (p147)

・The fact that white people and black people are most separated in America is Sunday morning means that the time period when racism is most pronounced in America is the time when everyone attends church (p175)

・The three elements of “Japanese values,” “Buddhist philosophy,” and “background in Chinese books” were always prominent in Japanese thought patterns from the Asuka period to the Edo period, but the rural samurai in Choshu and Satsuma who imposed the conviction of the Meiji Restoration on the Japanese did not understand the merits of this “trinity of Japanese civilization” (p198)

・The biggest factor that drove international politics was a change in balance of power between countries, the rise of the Habsburg Empire in the 16th century, the rise of the French Empire under Louis XIV in the latter half of the 17th century, the battle for hegemony between the English and French empires in the 18th century, the Napoleonic Empire in the 19th century, balance of power between the British Empire and Metternich () Bismarr, and the first world caused by Germany's desire for world hegemony There are World War II, which occurred due to defects in the Versailles system after the Great War, the East-West Cold War, and the subsequent failure of America's unipolar J-hegemony (p237)