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Information from Mr. Masatoshi Takesita
posted on his blog – September 28, 2012 –
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English translation of a Japanese article: Ankoku Yakou – September 28, 2012 –
Dying
“Terminal Patient” America About to Collapse – It’s Time to Review Japan-U.S.
Relations
U.S. economy has increasingly
gotten out of control and the country is just like a dying patient and barely
survives with the help of monetary policy, quantitative easing round 3 (QE3) as
“emergency transfusion” FRB forced to adopt.
Strangely enough, the mass media has fueled
concerns over crisis of EU so much, but while it reports the sluggish and
stagnant American economy, which is supposed to be on the verge of the greatest
crisis, but never mentions its crisis equal to national collapse.
FRB repeatedly adopted the monetary policy quantitative
easing round 1 (QE1) and round 2 (QE2) to put off the inevitable and this time it
has adopted QE3; it has issued a significant amount of greenbacks by further
running rotary presses. Naturally, U.S.
will be challenged by “collapse of the dollar.”
If FRB issues an
astronomical amount of greenbacks, which lack supportive evidence by gold kept
in Fort Knox, the dollar will apparently be devalued.
With less coverage by media, Japanese are
unfamiliar with the reality that actually as global
trend, a move to change settlement currency from U.S. dollar to Chinese yuan or
euro has been accelerated.
In other words,
the move is “separation from dollar.”
A decade ago, if a country had tried to
shift its settlement currency to euro, the U.S. would have imposed “strict
economic embargo” or “economic occupation” on the country as in the case of
Iraq ruled by Saddam Hussein. However,
the “terminal patient” U.S. with complete lack of money has actually no
financial power or national power to wage wars of aggression.
In the U.S. under such circumstances,
however, a small handful of the rich occupy a limited amount of wealth and
low-income earners as well as moderate-income earners have started becoming
bankrupt.
The number of the poor is steadily
increasing and many households which lose not only jobs or income but also
houses have appeared one after another.
Furthermore, the number of people without
medical insurance has reached approximately 50 million (an increase of 0.9
million people over last year). You can
imagine how they are miserable.
I think that there
are quite a lot of people who still believe the “declining country” U.S. to be
a “mighty nation” which will stand by Japan and underestimate the tensions
between Japan and China. They
expect too much of nothing but a phony word “Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.”
However, my opinion is that “Japan-U.S.
Security Treaty” is already “fantasy” and will have no effect on Japan’s
relations to China and Korea when it comes to the crunch.
It is not too much to say
that “Japan-U.S. Security Treaty” after the end of the cold war between USA and
USSR is nothing but a “stuff” which is utilized to have Japan donate “sympathy
budget allocations” amply and purchase U.S. military aircraft in bulk by “purposely”
creating state of tension; sometimes war on terrorism and other times making
North Korea as an imaginary enemy.
And now in the midst of increasing tensions
between Japan and a new imaginary enemy China, the U.S. arms industry plans to
make massive profits through “heavy trading” with Japan.
“Japan-U.S. Security Treaty”, of course,
can be discussed from a different aspect.
However, I’d like you to think of the meaning of the treaty in the light
of the question: “Is the U.S. really in a position to do something for Japan?”
