The Rise of Japan was an epic story, but the Japanese military’s victories sowed the seeds of its destruction. In today’s episode we revisit Japan’s wars around the turn of the 20th century, and the way that winning wasn’t really winning.
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I spent a little time off this summer, and spent a lot of time thinking about where the US is as a country in year ten of the Trump era. The biggest problem is that thanks to Trump, and his predecessors, the US military is completely out of control. This article is a doozy, but I think it explains most of where we are, a lot more convincingly and comprehensively than anything else I’ve seen.
The Japan-US relationship is tremendously undervalued. The recent Yen bailout inspired Ruairi and I to attempt to give Japan it’s due.
I also published a substack making the case for Japan being the US’s greatest ally.
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It’s been almost 200 episodes! And I was on vacation last week. So it’s time for a Q&A episode. We start off with a discussion of the recent Michigan election.
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Spain is doing surprisingly well. A week after we recorded the episode above, Morocco’s swamping of one of Spain’s African enclaves with migrants made the news. That didn’t make the episode, but I wrote a substack about it.
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