QUOTE(Knnbuccb @ Nov 27 2025, 12:07 PM)
Agree
Japan only become what they are now due to US back then
Dropping the atomic bombs was one of the best decision made in the history of warfare or politics
In a way.... China got something to thank US for, altho actually US intention was not to help china or anyone but to show their might.....
It got me thinking about why maddy was so obsessed with Japan.......it appears that he probably had a misguided understanding of Japan but can't blame him given that the 1980s were a different time and Japan was the country to be.
Japanese success is owed to the US. No one else in the world has the capacity to absorbed Japanese export surplus other than the US, more so after the 70s when Kissinger concluded that for the US to remain a dominant power, it had to enlarge the deficit, print money and make the world carry US debt. Japan grew rich because the US was able to buy its stuff, Europe with the exception of the UK, France and West Germany didn't have the wealth to eat up japanese goods
Success means export driven prosperity here. We see China follow a similar model but have since pivoted away since 2012, the export mix of chinese goods flowing into the US is very different from that of japanese goods flowing into the US in the 80s