Erik Prince
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Japan is different.
Japan is Mongols on an island.
If there's one thing that terrifies all Han Chinese, it's Mongols.
Mongols on a peninsula, Korea.
Mongols on an island, Japan.
And the fact that Japan has woken up and is starting to spend serious money now...
And with the magnificent efficiency, right, Toyota-level production efficiency of Japanese-made weapons, Japan can be a significant deterring force, and we should let them be.
We should not expect it to be all U.S.
Navy all the time.
At a recent exercise, Japan showed up with their flagship.
I think it was the Kaga.
which was the old command ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
It's good to let a little bit of that Japanese warrior tradition return.
Because China works on their neighbors.
Massive political subversion in all these countries.
You see it in Japan, and it was especially the case in Korea.
And the reason that prime minister tried to act was to cut off that subversion.
Yep.
And North Korean as well.
Correct.