goooooood question, I wanna hear him say it. I can imagine it already. It's going to sound so odd, I can tell. Something like mom-danny

I feel like he's going to pronounce it "Mom the Knee"

if only the imperial metropole was in a country that actually had a real culture instead of whatever the fuck the american simulacra of european shit is meant to be. instead we have burgers and fries

Blue Jeans, Rock Music, and baring witness to endless political ratfucking after a minor victory against the entrenched liberal political class.

To be fair even among Arab states Lebanon is uniquely western brained

You do spend a lot of time on an American website. Does this have much reach outside of places like Hexbear in Lebanon?

I don't see their point here, making the implicit assumption we're talking about the ruling class interests and not the general peope.

For Japan the key reason is their Imperialist ambitions. Japan benefits extremely from US backing otherwise they'd have to build a military that can actualy measure up to China. Japanese nationalists have already succeeded into pushing for their own militarism and this is only allowed at all exactly because of the perception Japan isn't strong enough on its own. This militaristic narrative is only ever possible through the presence of US military in their country and as the US pushes the China bad narrative it naturally fuels Japanese nationalism.

Left to their own Japan would be far more inclined to seek peaceful relations with China and others. Economically its clear Japan should prefer China and pacifism, but the Japanese boomer led oligarchy is incapable of ever admitting Japan can no longer be a world leader and their ambition lies with maintaining the US perpetually invested in the region.

This is extremely surface level stuff you can find on google Japan hunts for dual-use goods makers to aid military expansion

Cultivating a home-grown defence industry was a key plank of Japan's 43 trillion yen ($275 billion) military build-up strategy launched in 2022 to counter escalating security threats from China, Russia and nuclear-armed North Korea.

But it faces a challenge. Unlike some of its allies, Japan has no defence industry champions, such as Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) in the U.S. and BAE Systems (BAES.L) that depend on military work for almost all of their sales. Even at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (7011.T) Japan's leading defence contractor, sales of combat aircraft, warships and other military equipment account for less than a fifth of revenue.

"If we don't pioneer on our own, we won't be able to keep up with global trends," former defence minister Minoru Kihara told Reuters. "Japan should invest in research and development that contributes to national security, including dual-use technologies, without fear of failure."

This is an impossible narrative without the expansion of US backed militarism in the region. The US is also a very strong guarantee over DPRK's nukes which is self explanatory, Japan will never build nukes on their own.

For South Korea I'm not even sure there needs to be an argument made about how a bigger US involvement against the DPRK is necessary, as SK is just a giant Samsung company town, without this stranglehold on society is there any future for them?

In California, the PSL candidate (Claudia de la Cruz) beat out the Libertarian Party candidate for the Presidential election in 2024. I am using that as my completely arbitrary bar for success - I want to see Corbyn’s party beat the Lib Dems, and honestly if this hypothetical party is polling that well already then that is a good sign.

For first polling for a party that doesn't exist yet this is pretty good

Lol eat shit greens (glib dems)

I'm trying to forget the likely reality of a Farage govt. which will always remain preferable to Corbyn for the press/bourgeois class. BUT if we make a few labourite class traitors squirm in the process (and maybe kick a few out like Wes Streeting) this mega in 2029 can have a laugh before Prime Minister Nigel sends us to die for Taiwan.

really shows how useless the green's messaging is when they can't even beat JC by himself in a hypothetical scenario