• thatsnomayo@lemmy.mlOP
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      15 hours ago

      This is completely delusional by the way. Europe and Japan are key outposts for US extraction. You don’t understand the postwar financial system (asset bubble containing Nazi + imperial Japanese + Southern plantation wealth) at all lol this is why your people are doomed to slide into hell now

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          In my vicinity you are at best getting Thailand, which is like if Japan was also Pakistan for some awful reason.

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                14 hours ago

                Heh. Don’t make the mistake of conflating stability with prosperity. For a long time we thought things were going well too…

                ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                I guarantee you this is already a global problem. I’m deeply ashamed to see the country I grew up in spearheading it, but it’s been fermenting worldwide for a long time, I’m afraid.

                However, that said, I wish you and everyone on that side of the world the best! Fuck do I hope I’m wrong, too. But either way, the only path towards human society healing from any of this is if us common folk find some solidarity.

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                  If China was making vassals, you wouldn’t see the kind of development I get to participate in with my work here. You would see Bulgaria. The only people who will ever buy this shit are people who somehow forgot about the colonial era (westerners). When brother Laos emerged from French occupation there were people in villages a hop skip and a jump away from each other that had little trade activity and no family visits.

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                    Guess it depends on the purpose of the vassal. Japan/SK were developed by the US, because their primary purpose was security rather than resource extraction, while South America gets coups and tons of military aid to keep the resources and cheap labor flowing.