re: Shrink the military? Can right and left agree on this?

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Japan, on the other hand, could very easily rally around the existential threat of China to jump start its economy around rebuilding its military and Nationalistic pride Mussolini style. They would have the capacity to become a massive threat towards stability in the Pacific rim within a decade and throw fuel into the fire for a massive arms race/cold war with China. Not necessarily a good thing.

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The only thing that stops them from doing this is us. We are the security guarantor for many countries throughout the world. It would be a much scarier world if we were to withdraw, as several posters here suggest.