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>Japan submitted to the West and was the 2nd richest country for decades.
And then america forced it to devaluate, never recovered and became a stagnating economy with deepening demographic issues.
Needless to say the american influence in east asia was much less profund in many levels to manrain certain leverage and not create antagonism than it was in europe
Look at the united kingdom
They gave everything they wanted to the americans
Whay did they got?
Lost their empire, demographic replacement, A stagnating economy, demilitarized, became a irrelevant settlement economic zone in the international stage
The same argument can be made for france, germany, or any other potential european competitor
Later than sooner but for definite america declawed and forced into submission and dependence every european state
Fucked their demographics, fucked their culture and political sovereignity, fucked their economic sovereignity, invaded their markets, demilitarized them
Now you have the EU leadership going on their knees regulrly to slur american semen for a couple weapons more after they tariff you because they need to mitigate the effects of deindustrialization
Also the soviet union is not russia
Ever since 1991 Russia never had a chance to put itself on a good position
Color revolutions in ukraine, bombing serbia, attempts at color revolutions in georgia, its all about isolating russia and maiming its sphere of influence and trading partners in Europe in so far they dont capitulate and give america a free pass to invade their markets