American empire of Chaos

NOW THAT CHINA has an aircraft carrier, the united nations is calling for intervention in the syrian civil war, and the outgoing president of iran blames the united states for most of the world's problems, we are reminded of what an armed camp the world is, seemingly not getting any safer, as we had hoped it would by now.

After getting atomic bombed twice, japan decided it would become forever a pacifist nation, with no military. The only problem with that, of course, is that nobody else in the world did the same thing. Left undefended by now the chinese would have taken over japan,  so somebody had to defend japan, and guess who it turned out to be. The russians and chinese were scared off by the two atomic bombs, as was their intent.

It is unclear if Truman and MacArthur had any inkling that american troops and weaponry would be stationed on japan seventy five years after the end of world war two, and it is unclear how willing and interested teh U.S. was in assuming the role of japan's post war protector. Quite, it appears. The Unites states has never insisted that japan fend for itself, because if it had, japan would be fending for itself.

And economic benefits of this arrangement have been enormous for japan, and a serious drag on the american economy, which now stands at the brink of collapse, overwhelmed with debt and devalued currency. The united states spends as much on its military as the next top ten nations combined, and maintains a worldwide military presence aka empire, which is contributing to american bankruptcy.

Most of the world's nations, most rcently the united states, have learned that expansion is not necessary, and is indeed harmful, beyond a point. If and when china learns this, the world may become a safer place.