it's called imperialism. People were extrmely poor, and their industry was fucking abysmal, the only thing keeping the country afloat was the Army, and the Amry's secret police. They used korean slaves to mine coal and iron in north korea while importing extremely cheap oil from the US. The invasion Malaya and Indonesia gave them an extra few years during the war, but by the time the a-bombs were dropped they were dancing on a knife's edge.
Economic policy of Japan
JCP is the only prewar party that never collaborated with the fascist regime and they are pretty proud about it.
I mean they are basically succdems, but they are the only credible opposition to Abe.
Not sure.
Japanese people have to work extra hard to compete against Chinese slave labor.
If it weren't for Communism, Japan would basically be a Utopia.
The Japanese conquered a lot of Asia, Western Europe, and a lot of Pacific islands. Wanted to be the Asian master race. They failed. Now, they work like dogs to still be poor because they have to sell things in the global market extra cheap to compete with Communists.
In trying times suspending the rules of the fiat banking game and just doing stuff without worrying about jew confetti reveals the true, unleashed potential of any people.
It is not without reason that 99% of all wars are economic and financial in nature.
I think this guy may have made a video on this subject.
In other words, imagine you're in a city and the citizens decided to just mine for metal and build you guns and infrastructure without the hubbub of banking inbetween.
Something you would usually not get easily, something like an anti air cannon, for example, would be a possilibity without "well we will need a million monopoly monies for this ;^) otherwise we simply cannot do this task" bullshit.
Y'all must underestimate both the resources already present in some location and the willingness to recycle things or divert resources to more important things rather than dumb vanity stuff.
Apple extracts literally tonnes of gold from old devices which they can reuse without having to invade any country.
The fact that they are suffering today is due to the return to the fiat game and 'capitalism' that uses this 'capital' (which is no capital at all but debt and fantasy confetti).
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