In the past, Japan was shouting joy, but its actual actions were constrained by the United States, and it has always been handcuffed and faltering in military construction.
Now it is different, the United States has been stretched thin on global military spending on pepper noodles, and on Thursday of this month, the size of the US government debt will reach its ceiling, and the landlords' families will have no food left.
However, the status of the United States as a world police officer will not let go, in this case, it can only mobilize its subordinates, and Japan's military expansion, which has been repeatedly suppressed, has finally waited for the opportunity.
Theoretically, the United States should hate Japan the most, and Japan should hate the United States the most.
The world's first nuclear strike was the United States against Japan; And the first time the United States mainland was bombed, it was also from Japan.
However, our rise has made the United States feel uneasy and helpless, and now it has to let Japan's military buildup as a way to contain us.
This can be seen from Japan's recent announcement of military spending for the next five years.
From 2018 to 2022, Japan's military spending totaled 27.5 trillion yen, and in the next five years, Japan plans to spend 43 trillion yen on defense construction, an increase of 56%.
Who is Japan's imaginary enemy for strengthening its military construction?
This should not be a thought, at a glance.
The chart above shows Japan's GDP growth rate since 1961, which began to decline after 1987, with little improvement, fluctuating around zero most of the time, and economic growth almost stagnant, and even negative growth in some years.
Under these circumstances, Japan's expansion of military spending also proves from another perspective that the world may enter a non-stop phase.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised Japan's plans to expand military spending, saying, "Japan's new document reshapes our alliance's ability to promote peace and protect the rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific and around the world." ”
Blinken must have forgotten the tragedy at Pearl Harbor in the early morning of December 7, 1941, and the Japanese kamikaze team.