at the war in yemen, they fall even off with the carriers in crisis, the financial priorities of change, of arab and other countries. therefore, we can say that part of the crisis is funded, but some of it might be political, such as the is where you were strains on those generous donations. to end these cases, the main criticism towards him us is that the funds go to the construction of tunnels used by militants and not for building houses for the people. that key has and we totally reject these claims. and the reality shows that these claims and lies are totally untrue funding organizations, other ones supporting the reconstruction price. we in the ministry to receive these funds. for example, the u. n. o w a is the organization dealing with the refugees. so it's the one doing the reconstruction through technical follow ups using the self help method by giving the citizens a certain amount of money and making sure the rebuilding is happening often even other organizations that contribute to our nations use the same method. and therefore, the funding on the distributions of funds is done through the organization without

any mediation system. now the claims that these funds go to known that civilian targets and to strengthen the ministry wings is typically on fruit. all of these funds went directly to the financial beneficiaries and we in the ministry didn't receive a single dollar either in cash or otherwise. when it comes to the housing subjects commit. i left you have a conversation, continues online right now. what? ok, the thought pump in the meantime. thanks for joining us with this electro across from moscow. this is awesome. international headquarters in the heart of the russian capital, we are returning at the top of the hour that will be around midnight level time. here in the a rom, just don't you have to shape house

and engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves quilts of parts, we choose to look for common ground, the the hello, i'm the miller chan. you're tuned into modus operandi. japan isn't occupied nation, that's the analysis of famed author, james bradley. as the island nation struggles with a rapid population decline, japan's military spending increases this week, we'll explore how of so called how sophists democracy seems to be bolstering as war capabilities. and who's backing the re militarization of japan? all right, let's get into the m. o. the

imperial japan was decimated by 2 american nukes in 1945, killing some, 200. $20000.00 civilians, meaning and poisoning thousands more for generations. their newly assembled democracy and constitution written and implemented by the us outline a proper military force as defined by the americans would prevent any attempt to return to the status quote. fast forward some 50 years. and this island nation rebuilt to become an economic and technological power house. according to the world bank, japan ranks 3rd and it's 2022 report with g d, p. crossing the 5 trillion us dollar milestone back in 2018 and has remained fairly stable and its position ever since. perhaps not coincidentally, since 2018 japan has up its defense budget by some 5 and

a half $1000000000.00. but if japan doesn't technically have a military, who or what is japan spending this defense budget on? that money is going to the j. s. d f. the jap and these self defense forces. the island nation of 725000000 people retained a defense only force yet their defense budget ranks among the world's top 10. so why do the japanese feel so threatened that they've revised elements of their own constitution, who is arming them and who wants to see a re militarized japan? at to unpack this will turn to an asia expert. james bradley is in asia in the pacific historian and critically acclaimed best selling author of a number of books including flags of our fathers, which was turned into

a film by clint eastwood and his latest book is called the china mirage. thanks for being with us. james. so after the fall of imperial japan and world war 2, the us, the militarize, japan. but they maintain what's called the japanese s d f. the self defense forces established in 1954, around more or less. so a quarter 1000000 men. by japan's legal definition. the j as the app is not a military. internally, the public view. these forces a sort of like a r u. s. national guard who respond to domestic disaster is like earthquakes. however, ex donnelly, the j. s. d. f, is regarded as a military. is this a distinction without a difference? and does it really matter to this a distinction without a real difference? you know, after world war 2, the americans rewrote the japanese constitution said no more military. and then the

economies of budget in, in germany. we couldn't get them going and we needed to get them going. we needed that export and have them, you know, the vibrant for the us, god. and then luckily the korean war came along in america. i said he's, let's get a military industrial complex going again in japan and with the korean war. and since then, the yes, yes, it's been a great purchaser of equipment from the united states, which is one of the purposes you have in japan. taiwan. in the philippines and thailand out here in asia to purchase from the us military industrial complex. and now they're ramping that up, us alluding their american master. it says the late a former prime minister sion so i'll be back in 2014,

took drastic changes to the japanese constitution that position that previously as a pass of the state. the 1945 japanese constitutions article 9 explicitly for bids. the creation of an off sensitive military, yet japan has continually ramped up the growth of the j. s. d f. they've continued to invest more and more money into the defense budget. defense spending went up from 48500000000 back in 2018 to 54100000000 in 2021. put in japan. now in the top 10 in military spending, according to the rand corporation and many others. this has been done because of a perceived threat from china. so is this a valid claim? i mean, i understand there's debate over the said cost to islands, but can anyone really fathom china and beating mainland japan?

you know, um, you know, all the argument is focused by the american propaganda machine on japan looking at china. but let's turn the lens and look at japan to the united states. the action here is not between japan and china. the action is, japan said the money to lockheed and raise young in the us military. industrial complex. that's what's happening. the lockheed visa ends up their budget. japan's going to up their budget. you cannot be prime minister of japan if you're not going to salute your american masters folks. your pan is occupied country. every japanese lives within about 80 to 90 kilometers of an american soldier is occupied like you cannot imagine. so let's say 1961,

president eisenhower, former 5 star general, gave a speech and he said, i warn the american people about the mouse trap industrial complex. in other words, the mouse trap manufacturers. i can tape over the country with propaganda. they can bride brawl additions, they want to sell those mouse traps. and i warn you, if he had warned about the mouse trap industrial complex, and that's what was running in the united states. and that's what it was dominating politics in washington. then japan would have been inundated by propaganda over the last few decades. the mice from china are called me. you would have seen the warnings about the mice for the china that are coming in. japan has to buy american mile strips. you see, this is not about china in japan. this is about

a mere erica needs. our poles that are, you know, false handing blogs. natal. oh, natal was a form european presence. no, since it's american. and the natal says give us weapons in america. so the military industrial complex needs these customers out here. it's thailand, the philippines, taiwan in japan. they had better raise their budgets, or they are not going to stay in power. the argument from the japanese side regarding the j. s. d f, and it not only involves china, but the ballistics nuclear missile threat from north korea. now over the course of kim jong owns tenure. there have been numerous test launches that have landed near japan's territorial waters. i mean to close for comfort, right. given the close ties between the us and japan, and you know, the us maintaining bases in okinawa,

any conflict between north korea and japan could and would easily drag in the west . so what's the role of the us here in intervening? could the argument also be made that, you know, north korea is reacting to the us presence in the asia pacific a oh, a 100 percent. definitely. and this is what, so we're, if you are in north korea and you have a pair of binoculars every year you see american and allied forces going up to the d. m. z threatening nuclear. we are doing the exercises tens of thousands of aggressive troops traveling your country in the north vietnamese. see this, but the thing is united states doesn't see that americans, or anybody in the american propaganda spear i ask you, do you see the exercises that the australians and americans do with the ties in

tylen threatening to invade china? you know, see that? do you see the, a tremendously aggressive exercises costing billions of dollars in south korea, threatening north korea? you don't see it on your to. the only thing you see is when north korea reacts and says, you know what, you're threatening those united states. we have a missile. wow, that gets coverage over and over and over and over. that's why the question always is the trip from north korea, but we don't see the american troops mass, the net, the border directly nuclear and delegation of north korea are. now speaking of ok now on the us has some 800 basis on foreign soil. so we're, we're talking about 70 years into this land occupation of ok now at this point,

which is now a part of japan despite the ok, now ins considering themselves separate from the main islas, but under the control of the former imperialist japan. and the end of the korean war, the us, them seized tens of thousands of acres of farmland in, okay, now to build the marine base, they then turned their once very agricultural economy into one that's dependent on us military employment at those bases. so according to a professor in japan, professor made them laurie hero mores at the oak, in our international university, the us returned the continued our air base to the unspoken. now, once today, do, you know, would create economic activity worth one trillion yen annually? so that's about $10000000000.00 us dollars, but the west refuses to leave the island. could this be viewed as an external influence or, or force in having the japanese re militarize?

you know, okay, now is a nightmare. the point is, the united states military industrial complex. it sees japan as former prime minister, not that solely said that japan is the honest, single aircraft carrier for the united states. so the united states is forcing japan to take american troops and japan is for seen the troops. they're dumping them down and open our it's, it's like, uh, mexico take, you know, say to the united states, you have to dig mexican choose. so american says, okay, well, dump them down in puerto rico. is true, the puerto ricans, your go to ok. now it's an absolute nightmare. what it'd be, you know, occupied by so many american troops. 5 planes drawing in overhead, the number of rapes the cultural classes. mean that's a whole nother subject,

but yeah. ok, now it is over militarized, in the japanese can't do anything about it. they elected a governor a few years ago and the governor, one on the platform that he was gonna get united states military all after he was. now, this is the story. it's an, it's an anecdote. i don't have to prove that this is what i was told, that the governor was not met by an american state department. first, ignore the present in the united states. a united states marine general entered his office and said, we won this in 1945. wow. there was no deal struck, we just went in and, and took it we, we, uh, one. okay, now and 1945. listen. i'm a marine general. it's all were without leaving strategically. we,

we own this. you see, the american public is told our, our, there's japan is independent country and there's taiwan. this is the pending. there's the philip b. these are hands. these are gloves. over the american hand, the prime minister of japan said that japan is an unmistakable aircraft carrier for the united states. and then the military industrial complex can point china, china, china cabinet. oh, there's so much about these asian countries, china, they, i know what's the issue. they will double their budget and they will buy more missiles. i mean, comma hallmark missiles in japan are going to mean anything. china has 1500000000 people. there's 1500000 people in china. we have the largest navy in the world.

everyone in japan is over a 150 years old. the, the, the population is shrinking. they bought some drama, hardly. so it means nothing except the bottom line for the us military manufacturers. this is not a criticism from me. this is true. this is what's going on. all right, coming up next. china is often criticized for being non democratic in a single party state. but is japan actually any different? we'll discuss it when we return more with james bradley said type m o will be right back. the the look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a

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a better wills and is it just because it shows you fractured images, present it is, but can you see through their illusions, going underground? can the welcome back to the m. o i manila chance one of the tenets of democracy is that leadership and ruling parties vary with the times. so while japan claims to be a democratic state on paper, is it in effect, a, james bradley? thank you so much for sticking around with us. so let's talk more about this. japan's l d p, the liberal democratic party, the ruling party in japan is what they say center, right. but others might describe them as, as very, very right leaning, entertaining, some influence from the new pond tag, which is a powerful,

far right lobby group. who are very nationalistic, japan has been almost a single party state since 1945 with pushed from the office of strategic services. and the c a. l. d p is only falling out of power twice from 1993 to 1996. and then from 2009 to 2012 l d p has ruled almost to the entire time since 1945 minus 6 years. the us even helped push yukio have to yamma, who was the one non l d p out of power in 2010 because he wanted to close the open our base and normalize relations with china. could the us have been preparing for the rise of china for this long? i mean, is the us interest in japan only useful in its position to counter china in japan is useful for one reason. and that is due by american military

equipment and to allow the us military to be forward deployed to asia after world war 2. we said, we're not gonna fight in the united states. we're going to be forward deployed in europe and asia. so germany is an occupied country with american troops all over the place. i lived in germany, you see changed coming down the auto. tens of thousands of troops occupying that country. france keeps them up. the germans occupied japan as an occupied country con folks. united states beads japan the newer for is general macarthur in 1945. he rose as a supreme power to 1952. and this l. b. p is created. and then presto changer, japan's an independent country in dependent the us and that was there in japan's an independent country that just choose us to buy arms from the united states. no, no,

no, no, no, i don't think so. japan is a glove over the american military, and japan is one of the i'll post that for propaganda says we're afraid of our neighbors. and the solution is military equipment from the united states. folks, i'm not trying to be funny, but you have to follow the money. this is the story about money, about our in philippines, thailand, taiwan. in japan, after world war 2, my garter said to the us public, we have a christian crashing containing china from japan down to taiwan to the philippines. and that crosses was suppose to uh, we wanted to widen and have vietnam underneath. china should show china. but how

too many didn't like the idea. so we killed 3000000 via domains, and vietnamese is free. but thailand, the philippines, taiwan in japan, are now given your extensive studies and travels in asia, how do you see the asian pacific shaking out in this new century, especially given the us pivot to the pacific foreign policy as well. the future of asia has already been announced in us, admiral and us general, i'm sorry, i'm trying to forget their names. but in the last 3 months, they both said that there will be war with china by 2025. you know, president obama and secretary of state, hillary clinton for shadowed. what we're going to do, we're going to give it to asia. you see finding i you these in the middle east.

there wasn't a lot of profit with that. and americans were getting tired. so where is the profit? oh, we're gonna give it to asia. china is y z. oh wow. war against china is going to be satellites and ships. and, you know, computers in this is going to be unlimited expense. everybody's going to get involved with preparing for war with china. and remember, it real money isn't in the war. it's in the preparation for war. it's scaring the jeepers out of the publics. and preparing for war, we've got to be prepared that china, you know, the chinese mice are coming. so you gotta buy american model straps. that's the argument. so look at the japanese media. look at the american media. i ask you, listeners, yours, have you seen one half hour documentary on china?

that's positive. using cameras follow ordinary chinese families living their lives, talking about the benefits of 506070 1000000 poured chinese being brought into the middle class. have you seen chinese hold up a port i was in a cave in china and the guy living in the k by the way, which was nice and warm. he didn't want to move to his son's apartment. the gate was uh, of higher quality there limited his beautiful game, and he's showing the pork really said mister bradley, i can buy port for our b o. and 10 years ago, i need a big toothy smile if you see anything positive in the western media about china. no, you can see that french browser re in paris, or you can see the tao is leading the italian life. oh my god. so sweet. but

you cannot see anything positive about china. why? because china is being programmed. why don't we call television programs? program? china is being programmed as the n and what are your final thoughts on what could be viewed as japan's re militarization? is this a good thing or a bad thing for the asia pacific to this is back to the inmate asian pacific we should be looking for peace. we should get involved with the chinese belt and rhode initiative. but this is the problem. look at the world today. here's the blow. now look at the chunk of land called the great i of 19 o 5, the french strategist, mackenzie, or alfred mackenzie, or it's the mckindoe's here. look at the chunk of land between berlin and shanghai, between iran in mongolia between india and russia. look at that

big, big, big chunk of land. ok. that's called the great island and the geniuses like jake solomon and. 3 victoria newland and secretary state, blinking they were, they are taught that control of the great island is control of the world. so china and russia want to crisscross it. i agree, the internet and railroads in a berlin to shang i. real road runs a mosque hour in new delhi to, you know, they want to get that rate. i was going and there's so much rich is there. well, that's the thing that are geniuses in the national security agency cannot let out. so that's why we went into afghanistan. this was that great while we failed there. so let's create a problem over here in the ukraine to get into russia decapitate russia. not allow

it to participate in the green island, putting it together in china. let's try the south china sea. let's attack from japan. let's put missiles in south korea. let's have problems for china out here in the ocean because we cannot allow the unification of all these countries in the grade are. that's the overall gigi. a challenge for the united states, and it's ridiculous. we should allow peace, we should allow you unification, and we should stop basing our economy allow straps and having our allies force to buy mouse traps in order to survive. to critically acclaimed author and historian james bradley, thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today. so while japan is counted by the west as a shining example of modern asian democracy,

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