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Originally Posted by activeStick
I would be more concerned about the re-arming of Japan. The far right conservatives in Japan have continued to hold power there and Japan has consistently down played their atrocities all over Asia in WW2. Compare that to Germany and how they handle WW2.
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I get why Japan playing dumb about the atrocities of WW2 pisses people off, but I wouldn't worry about them re-arming.
Japanese society was utterly defeated 80 years ago and stand as a good example of why sometimes a society needs to be defeated in order to instill change. They abandoned their civilizational nationalism policies and adopted the liberal international order, and I don't see any signs that they have strayed from that. The same thing with Germany.
On the other hand, Russia, China, most of the Islamic world, and especially Iran, still use civilizational nationalism as a de facto policy. They oppose self-determination of people they see as falling within "their civilization". As far as Japan goes, they haven't seemed too into that over the past 80 years. The funny thing is that if the Russian and Chinese ideology of civilizational nationalism wins over the global market ideology of the West, it would only be a matter of time until those two civilizations clashed, and I think they know that.