
277 | Does America’s Most Important Asian Ally Want to Fight? - Tobias Harris on a pacifist Japan in the 21st century
The Realignment
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The Confidence of a Generation Leads to Utter Disaster
i'm really interested in the topic of confidence, because i think a large gree of, there's a large lack of confidence in response to basically the post cold war moment. However, it seems that the confidence of his grandfather's generation led to just utter disaster. I was going to say, when you're describing the the objective as national independence versus purer autocracy versus democracy, i frankly like the autocracy versusdemocracy framework. But youre point, if we're talking about autocracy and democracy, doesn't really put you in the most convenient position to explain that. And unfortunately, the approach to getting pet japanese people to feel pride in their history was essentially either denying
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