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The US never really had a long term strategy except hope that all its enemies are Japan. Just bomb them and they will promptly liberalize and westernize.
I think the fact there wasn’t an armed resistance to the US occupation of Japan and the fact it became a US ally after the war, really damaged the US perception of the world. They only know one tool (bombs) and it worked for them that one time, so it must always work for them. Unless I am wrong and there was an armed resistance to the US occupation of Japan. I just never read or heard about it.
The US spent decades bombing us, toppling our governments and subverting the people’s wishes. With nothing to show for it. The moment our monarchs and military juntas -which were supposedly sock puppets of the US- found another super power to court they went and courted two of them: Russia and China. Even Iraq is allied to Iran and being rebuilt by China.
The reason Japan surrendered to US was because they realized they lost the war with the Soviets and they wanted to surrender to US because they were rabidly anti-communist. Nobody should've looked at Japan as a good model for subjugating other countries because the conditions there were unique.
Global stability and prosperity will inevitably chip away at the vectors of control held by the empire. As its influence wanes, it will likely drive turmoil at home, as it may have to transition away from its service economy into a more productive and useful economy on the global playfield. If the dedollarization efforts continue at pace, it will only further weaken its position. Plurality appears to be the name of the game in the next 10+ years.
Yeah I think the world is already multipolar but the decaying political and financial structures of neocolonialism persist over and through it with countries like 🇿🇦🇦🇪🇸🇦🇪🇬🇮🇳 more willing to act as slightly higher low rungs of the value ladder (sub imperialists) than any kind of broader geopolitical reorientation. In terms of military and agricultural and high tech production and even culture things are not going to be in our favor in the long run vs actual development.
This is the way the struggle is going to play out rather than some kind of massive breakout of world war without Pax Americana as the Kautskyists would have me believe
