America’s Foreign Treaties: Entrees for Indebtedness, Subjugation & Enslavement by the Banking Cartel

While Americans focus on the empire-building ‘wars on terror’ conflicts, we are setting ourselves up for greater dangers in SE Asia.

Realizing…

“…The second presumption that the U.S. and the Japanese defense contributions
to the United States-Japan security treaty can be interpreted as international
public goods is fraught with a series of questionable assumptions.13

To begin with, it is difficult to statistically determine how much of the U.S. national defense expenditure (and the Japanese national defense expenditure) is a contribution to the United States-Japan security treaty (or the United States-Japan alliance, to use a term favored in the 198Os), and how much is not.

Some observers implicitly assume both countries’ total national defense expenditures (America’s 5-6 percent of GNP defense burden and Japan’s 1 percent burden) to be their contributions to the alliance, while others view the estimated costs of the U.S. military presence in Japan (or in the Pacific) as America’s burden of defending Japan. Analytically the more significant issue, however, is that a hegemonic nation’s international commitments cannot be neatly separated from its national interest: America’s financial and human costs of assuming leadership of a collective security arrangement (NATO, the United States-Japan security treaty, and so on) are precisely what bring it various economic, political, and psychic benefits.

In other words, the burden that the United States seems increasingly unwilling-and apparently unable-to bear is the burden of being the superpower: this burden forms the basis of America’s global power, prestige, and privilege…” Source: CFR-Foreign Aid and Burdensharing: Is Japan Free Riding to a Coprosperity Sphere in Pacific Asia? – PDF 71 pgs.

Related: CRS-The U.S.-Japan Alliance Emma Chanlett-Avery Specialist in Asian Affairs January 18, 2011