Reading the first lines of the article "Japan in a post-U.S. world," I really wonder if the author seriously means this. What the United States is doing is trying to force everybody into the mind-set that it has. This can be seen in Japan.
This is wrong and always has been, beginning with the missionaries' efforts to force the Christian religion onto everybody crossing their way and Washington's tendency to spread grief and death to people who didn't align with its expectations. Americans even live on stolen grounds, spreading their fear system to the rest of the world.
Playing world policeman is not a task the U.S. was meant to do. The United Nations is more suited for this. So if the current situation in the U.S. leads it to see the rest of the world speaking and working together, with the U.S. eventually joining it perhaps but not as a fictitious leader, then this is a very good thing.
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