This chapter analyzes how totalitarian and one-party communist states exploit weakness economically and seize territory militarily, exposing the naïve moralism that disguises such behavior under euphemisms like “flexible nationalism.”

2016-03-29
Totalitarian states, Nazi states, and above all one-party communist dictatorships operate in a predictable manner.
Economically, if an opponent shows even the slightest weakness, or behaves with naïve goodwill, they will relentlessly extract money, or simply deceive and take it.
Militarily, if they perceive even a small opening, they immediately turn another country’s territory into their own.
They do not recognize the small-scale clashes that occur in this process as wars, nor do they perceive them as steps toward major war.
Why is that.
Because they are immature and malicious totalitarian or Nazi-like states, epitomized by one-party communist dictatorships.
It is only natural that fellow communists work on their behalf, but organizations such as Asahi Shimbun and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which align with or even embolden them, lack even a kindergarten-level understanding of this reality.
What they possess instead is nothing more than a façade of moralism.
Hiroshi Hoshi describes this very pattern of behavior on public airwaves as “flexible nationalism.”
He goes further and declares that in Japan, only Asahi Shimbun possesses such flexible nationalism.
In other words, he claims that they themselves embody flexible nationalism.
During the Naoto Kan administration, he repeatedly wrote commentaries in Asahi Shimbun praising not only Kan himself but even his wife, marking him as a truly incorrigible man.
Last night, however, he revealed to the entire nation that he is even more hopeless than previously understood.
One of my classmates, with whom I was once close, transferred from Fukushima Prefectural Fukushima High School, and I cannot help but feel that the honor of his alma mater has been significantly diminished.