• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    No. Not disengagement; quite the opposite. De-radicalization and modernization.

    The way Germany stopped worshiping Hitler and the mythical Great Germanic Past. The way Japan stopped worshiping Hirohito and the mythical Great Japanese Past.

    Both were quasi religious states, depending on a population steeped in a culture of credulity coupled with unchallengeable authority.

    Related but not identical: North Korea, Iran, Putin’s Russia, MAGA

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      Germany and Japan were subject to complete and total American led nation building. Douglas MacArthur basically wrote the Japanese constitution and modeled it on America.

      Who do you plan to appoint as leader of this new project of yours?

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        Yeah that’s the real serious problem here

        There is no Force Majure. America that was, is no more.

        Learn to swim?