a fake flag, of course, the one in government seems to be offended by. that's weird as it also showed, a photo of under warranty and flag with the lion and song emblem on it, which was used before. the 1979, his vomit of allusion, and is no longer used on the iranian national flag. the twitter post by the swiss embassy and deadlines was released after yvonne, hank, those for you meant by the names of my teeth, cause any salt. let me have hush would be as that eat. yeah, hopefully he were convicted of what the iranian constitution calls lahardo, bear or war against god. those people were also accused of by using guns during the pro maxima. i mean the process and the iranian central city of us were home, back in november last year. they had also been involved in the desk of 3 security officers during the riley's, those security officers included 2 members of the best each barrel, military force, and one law enforcement officer. those 3 people were arrested immediately or sentenced to death back in january. so when i see one says switzerland's action is

not compatible with the friendly ties between these monochrome copier. bon and this was confederation. and that story continues online on our website, odyssey dot com. many other stories you think you may have missed check out a wide range of telegram channels as well. for the meantime, to find the there are reports, fee by didn't ministration, may push to turn the ukraine complex into a frozen complex. this is on many levels. first of all, washington claims not to be part of the complex, and most importantly, why in the world with moscow settle on terms set by the american 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 will explore how of so called have success. 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 powerhouse. 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 the military, who or what is japan spending this defense budget on that money is going to the j. s. d f. the japanese self defense forces, the island nation of 725000000 people retains

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 s d f 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 darn only the j s. d f is regarded as a military. is this a distinction without a difference? and does it really matter to? this is a distinction without a real difference. you know, after mid war 2, the americans rewrote the japanese constitution said no more military. and then the economies of jp and in germany, we couldn't get them going and we needed to get them going. we needed an export and have them, you know, vibrant for the us. and then luckily, the korean war came along in america, they said he's, let's get a military industrial complex going again in japan and with

a korean war. and since then, the yes, yes, it's been a great purchaser of the 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. the purchase from the us military industrial complex. and now they're ramping that up, us alluding their american master a 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 passive of 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 is being 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 japan, 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 master's fault. your pan is occupied country. every japanese lives within about 80 to 90 kilometers of an american soldier. it is occupied like you cannot imagine. ready so let's say 1961 president eisenhower form or 5 star general. 4 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 take over the country with propaganda. they can bride problem visions. they want to sell those mouse traps. and i warn you,

if you have more than 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've seen the warnings about the mice for the china that are coming in. japan has to buy american mousetraps. 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. you're being presence. know, since it's american. and then natal says give us weapons and america. so the military industrial complex needs these customers out here. it's thailand, the philippines, taiwan in japan. they have 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 exercises tens of thousands of aggressive troops traveling your country in the north of, you know, you 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 don't 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. you only thing you see is when north korea, yes and says, you know what,

you're threatening us 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 massing that the border direct, a nuclear 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 it's considering themselves separate from the main islands. 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 okinawa to build the marine base. they then turned their once very agricultural economy into one that's

dependent on us military employment act, 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, dina would create economic activity worth one trillion yen annually. so that's about $10000000000.00 us dollars. but the us 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 and 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 forcing the troops, they're dumping them down in okinawa, it's, it's, it's like, uh, mexico take, you know, same to the united states. you have to take 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. 4 please joining overhead the number of rapes the cultural classes. mean that's a whole nother subject, but yeah. okay, now it is over militarized, and 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 the american state department 1st thing or the present in the united states. the united states marine general entered his office and said, we won this at 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 we're, we're, we're not meeting strategically. we, we own this. you say the american public is tall, our, our, there's japan is independent country and there's taiwan. this isn't pending, but 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 country, china, they, i know what solution 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. they have the largest navy in the world. everyone in japan is over a 100 years old. the, the, the population is shrinking. they bought some drama our lives, 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 a doors to move into students, the sluggard or sounds good right now let's you and they thought is going to look. you agree, mr. low to post the is all the at the is that i, that's a get a minute come, other sponsor i need, which is easy to saw on the concrete as a central material, which is the time when i didn't like july. the 2nd is ordered by the

little screw. well, in the middle of something that we did present to not the beginning of the results. ok 20. and then we're just dealing with a solution for children. i'm comfortable in which we can, which insidiously suit him. they process the welcome back to the m o i manila, chad. one of the tenets of democracy is that leadership and ruling parties very with the times. so while japan claims to be a democratic state on paper, is it in effect? 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 e, 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 has only fallen out of power. weiss 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 had 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?

japan is useful for one reason. and that is to uh, buy 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 tanks coming down the auto body. tens of thousands of troops occupying the country, france, keep them up. the germans occupied japan as an occupied country. come on folks. united states speeds to ban the newer for is general macarthur in 1945. he rose as a supreme power till 1952. and this l. b p is created. and then presto changer,

japan's an independent country independent the us and that was there. japan's an independent country that just choose us to buy arms from the united states. 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 as a 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 a story about money, about our in philippines, thailand, taiwan. in japan. after world war 2, my garter said the us public. we have a christian crises containing china from japan, down to taiwan, to the philippines. and that crosses was suppose to, uh, uh, we wanted to,

why does it have vietnam underneath china should show china. but how to middle didn't like the idea. so we killed 3000000 via demands and be able to use this free. but thailand, the philippines, taiwan in japan, are no different 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 to get their names. but in the last 3 months, they both said that there will be war with china by 2025. you know, resident obama and secretary of state, hillary clinton for shadowed. what we were 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 pivot to asia, china's y z o. wow. war against china is gonna 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 it? no more. 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 in the middle class. have you seen chinese hold up a port i was in a cave in china and the guy living in the cave 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 this beautiful game, and he's showing me for really said mister bradley, i can buy port for our meal. 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 italians leading the italian life. oh my god, so sweet. but you cannot see anything positive about china. why? because china is being programmed. why do we call television programs? program? china is being programmed as the 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 mate and 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 all the 5, the french strategist, mackenzie or alfred, the kinder. it's the mckendra dear. look at the jungle land between berlin in

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 genius is like jake solomon and victoria, no one and secretary state blinking. they were, they are taught that control of degree island is control of the world. so china and russia want to crisscross. i agree, the internet and railroads in a berlin to shanghai river road. it 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. i'll we fail 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 were 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 shall allow peace, we should allow you unification. and we should stop basing our economy and mousetraps and having our allies forced to by mouse traps in order to survive. 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, is it only because it's image was crafted by its american architects? so something to think about, that's going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi the show that digs deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chan. thank you so much for tuning in. we'll see you again next time to figure out the m. o. the, the other way, not the right it says the brother printer was up at the moment this was sent over there. so basically of course

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