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>the third biggest in the world
lol, only because the Japanese yen dropped against the dollar
Japan is the real #3
anyhow, an economy means nothing if it brings neither soft nor hard power
you're just an economic zone, not a country, created by America in 1945 and propped up as NATO's bulwark, not only by the Marshall Plan but first and foremost by Wall Street investment and the Bretton-Woods system and U.S.-sponsored and defended free trade around the globe
a vassal bred to be a product & resource colony, an obedient supply chain contributor to the U.S. global empire
we're NATO's bulwark state now, btw
we the west germany now
