Inspired by Hans Delbrück, Ishiwara proposed that there are two types of war: protracted and decisive. Japan must unify Asia under its leadership, in preparation for a protracted war with the West under American leadership. He also hoped that an intervention of Manchuria would awaken Japan to its historical mission. He expected that before the final war, Japan would fight a war with America over who can control China, and Japan would prevail.[5]
Ishiwara felt that the period of world conflict was fast approaching, and Japan, relying upon its vision of the kokutai and its sacred mission to "liberate" China, would lead a unified East Asia to defeat the West.[6] He claimed "Japan must be victorious, not for the sake of her own national interest, but for the salvation of the world."[7]
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>>2430184>Mfw my logic is completely fucking brokenMLs are genuinely dumber than the average child
>>2431261Because Japan isn’t ideologically committed to America? Fuck why do leftoids struggle so hard to analyze states from the perspective of national capital instead of this liberal nonsense where you pretend that states and governments are actual individual people? Japan’s economy is completely flush with US dollars, America functionally controls its economy and thus a lot of its foreign economic policy through that lever due to how dependent Japan, like all of America’s stated allies, have been made on the USA in some sense, in the most obvious case the military (America is still occupying Japan and Japan’s military is nothing compared to all its regional competitors, from China, to the Koreas, to India and Pakistan and possibly even countries like Vietnam) and less obviously, if America gutted trade with Japan and then manipulated their own currency Japan would be hit much harder than America; most of the Japanese capitals just aren’t willing to eat such losses, and the military doesn’t want to risk either facing its adversaries without support or turning America into an open adversary; at least the hegemonic factions in these two structures
>>2464451Japan: We are waging this war against this west-aligned fascist to make a multipolar order. Its not imperialism but anti-imperialism because we share the same civilization, are dependent on the export of commodities, and imperialism is embodied in the West. The real patriots of the 3rd world like Bose trust and support us. If you are against the war you want us to be colonized.
Russia: We are waging this war against this west-aligned fascist to make a multipolar order. Its not imperialism but anti-imperialism because we share the same civilization, are dependent on the export of commodities, and imperialism is embodied in the West. The real patriots of the 3rd world like Traore trust and support us. If you are against the war you want us to be colonized.
>>2466339but japan wasn't reliant on commodity exports. they were fully imperialist and had massive monopolies that were deeply tied with finance and capital export. mitsubishi was one of the biggest monopolies in the world. and their expansion was explicitly driven by such monopoly conditions. and they had direct colonies. and their economy was dependent on capital export to those colonies. and they were fascist.
the comparison really doesnt make any sense.
>>2467022>When they weren't importing Japanese goods due to the Depression the economy went into a ditch and burnedand how come ruzzia didn't collapse then??
the quote in OP is talking about the a world war against the west and now your going back before the war started in different conditions. youre literally describing the transition of monopoly stagnation driving extraterritorial expansion, which clearly doesn't apply in the russian case.
>>2466339>We are waging this war against this west-aligned fascistwho is the west aligned fascist? china who they are trying to "liberate? or you mean japan thought america was fascist? which war? the sino-japanese war or the the world war? war with america or on china?
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>>2467107>and how come ruzzia didn't collapse then??Do you actually think Russia is struggling to export their oil to the world? lol
>the quote in OP is talking about the a world war against the west and now your going back before the war started in different conditions.Various Japanese ideologues pitched it that the war was against the west, but it was primarily for the seizure of more territories like Manchuria to monopolize the markets of, not actually defeating the US. Japanese ambitions were just that the US would decide it wasn't worth it after the victories the Japanese showed after Pearl Harbor, and opting for a peace deal. Even regarding China the government was attempting to pledge to the West that their economic investment in China would remain untouched to avoid confrontation, all while the imperial ideologues claimed the war was liberating China from the west. Japan was never planning on actually invading California or Australia, the World War in the Pacific was just a result of the invasion of China stalling due to a lack of resources which were abundant in nearby Western Colonies like Indonesia, Indochina, and the Philippines.
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