Sarah Paine

And he told the army, he said, fellas, if you go on this bent for empire campaign,

you're not going to actually get resources because you're going to spend a lot of money fighting with people, resources doing that, and then it's going to take you years of investments to access these resources.

So you've got to be able to cover these investments for years and years and years and cooperate within the international system.

That is the way to prosperity for Japan.

And that was the February Young Officers Revolt, where he and I can't remember how many others were murdered.

They came to his home in the middle of the night, and as he stood up to talk to them, they literally hacked him apart.

They had lost.

That whole game is over.

They have a huge army there that's more than capable of assassinating people when they get in the way.

So that ship has sailed.

This is what a pivotal decision is.

Once you've made it, there's no going back to the way the world was.

And Japan lost too many people.

And there are too many figures in the army.

We think that it's an inevitable outcome.

Of having the world the way it is now with this Japan, this wonderful country now, just at the lead of so many different areas of human endeavor.

And we think, oh, that's the inevitable outcome.

It's not.

But this is serious, right?

is, uh, we all live that holy smooth tariff is a game of half court tennis.