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[Whitehouse: If American citizens aren’t allowed to understand who’s who on the political playing field—who’s playing for what team, who they really are, who they’re representing—you have disabled perhaps the most fundamental foundation of democracy.] [Pomerantsev: When you live in this world where you don’t know which money, which powerful figures are behind which political decisions that are being made around you and influence you—when it’s all sort of wrapped in this sort of mist—then you feel kind of helpless. You feel you have no agency. You feel you don’t matter. You feel as if you have no say.] Japan also faced this type of crisis during Abe Shinzo's second Administration, and it still continues although it just a little has been reduced in magnitude. In order to clear the crisis, Abe Shinzo's fellows must be eradicated. They mostly commit insider trading of stocks of Japanese businesses and US defense contractors. Therefore, if US, EU, UK, South Korea, and China cooperated to buy yen massively, the remnant of Abe's faction who commit insider trading would suffer great loss. https://lnkd.in/graQ_DQZ

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[William Brangham, anchor for PBS NewsHour: The 2024 campaign was already shaping up to be the most expensive election of all time. But now several high-profile billionaires are dumping massive amounts of money into the presidential race. Whitehouse: It shifts power to those big special interests and away from ordinary voters. It shifts the attention of Congress away from ordinary voters and to those big special interests, who can deliver that kind of money secretly.] [Whitehouse: There’s a whole infrastructure that creates this political secrecy right now. So, there is a huge transformation that has taken place, that is represented by an entirely new bestiary of corporate entities designed to corrupt American elections. That is new, and that is awful, and we should not get used to it.] Billionaires such as Musk pose significant threats to America's democracy and America's rule of the laws.

[Kaleniuk: Well, if there is alliance between America and Russia, between America and China, there will be end of democracy in America. It’s as simple as that.] I think that Ms. Daria Kaleniuk just a little misunderstands China. Japan and China are much the same in terms of authoritarian states. And, US has security treaty with Japan, which is as authoritarian as China. Therefore, even if US-China Alliance were established, it won't impact Ukraine and the world. Russia is much different from China. China has substantial plasticity. ( https://lnkd.in/g8mQwqeT ) Whether a country is authoritarian or not is not something that can be clearly distinguished as a digital value of 1 or 0, but should be distributed along a spectrum. For example, if China is authoritarian at 65-35, Japan is more likely to be authoritarian at 75-25, and Northern Europe is around 5-95, with almost no authoritarian tendencies. Of course, Russia is around 90-10 authoritarian. This paraphrase reminds me of Japan Lobby's silent invasion of America's political sphere: [Kaleniuk: I want to believe that America has strong institutions and American democracy will survive any shake-up. But if it was just up to American people, that would be very easy. However, if America is exposed to all these external influences of authoritarian systems and dirty money, that is much harder because sometimes you don’t understand, actually, who is doing some operations on your ground, who is manipulating you. And that is a very dangerous situation.] Japan Lobby abundantly gives money to America's think tanks and mass media in order to influence America's policies and public opinion. Most of Americans lack necessary vigilance against Japan Lobby, although many Americans have healthy vigilance against Russia and excessive vigilance against China. Make no mistake: Japan is much more authoritarian than China. Americans need more vigilance against Japan Lobby.

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This part reminds me of Japan's present situation: [I mean, think about it: Once you have people running the country who use it to enrich themselves, then they don’t want to let go of that resource ever again. And they find ways to make sure they, essentially, never leave power. They rig elections. They curtail rights of anyone who wants to challenge them. They want to repress people who ask too many questions about where their money comes from. And then they institute a system of surveillance and control to make sure that repression succeeds. Daria Kaleniuk: So kleptocracy is when the state is being owned by a small group of people. Like, in Russia, there is kleptocracy, which actually turned into the complete totalitarianism.] Japan actually is owned by Keidanren Lobby and LDP cronies. And, Kleptocracy began since Abe Shinzo's second Administration. If Abe Shinzo wasn't cleared by a brave ex-SDF patriot Yamagami, Japan would have already turned into the complete totalitarianism now. Yamagami saved Japan.

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