Japan will 'go up in flames' in case of US-Sino war: Analyst
The Japanese people are right in protesting Tokyo’s military ambitions because an alliance with the US will send Tokyo “up in flames” in case of a war between China and the United States, an American military analyst says.
Michael Burns, a political and military analyst, made the remarks when interviewed about reports of a mass demonstration that people in Japan have organized about the country’s military expansion.
Organizers of the rally say that at least 10,000 to 20,000 people are expected to turn out on Sunday in Yokosuka, to protest a set of security bills that would broaden Japan’s combat options.
The impending arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier at the Japanese waters was also cited to be another reason for the protests.
“Shinzo Abe is determined to ally his military interests with the United States and become a front-line state in attempt to encircle China and to put itself on a war footing, and this is causing deep, deep anxiety amongst the Japanese people,” Burns told Press TV on Friday.
“It is a tragic situation because these front-line states like Australia and Japan, in the event of a war between China and the US, are going to go up in flames,” at the onset of the conflict, he predicted.
The analyst blamed arrogance on the part of the Japanese military commanders as the main reason and warned of the consequences similar to those ensued from World War II for the country.
During World War II, in “an arrogant projection of political power,” a small group of Japanese generals and army commanders decided to dictate Japan’s power to the world and ended up destroying millions of Japanese people, “a sad tragedy,” he said.
“Until the very last Japanese citizen was bombed out of their paper shacks on the Tokyo plain there was a group of Japanese officers who didn’t want to surrender,” he added.
Opponents to Abe’s administration worry that the new security bills would undermine seventy years of pacifism the country has been adhering to by a pacifist constitution since 1945.
In response, Abe and his supporters say that Japan should increase the extent and power of its army amid potential threats from other countries like China and North Korea that are expanding their military and nuclear capabilities.
Nearly 70 percent of the Japanese are against the military policy and its final approval, according to a new poll.
Through Abe’s ability to “manipulate the political leaders” and his likely attempts to “reinterpret the Japanese constitution,” these decisions are likely to go through, Burns added.
This is what Washington wants, he argued, because the US has never been invaded in a war and has never suffered any serious consequences of a war on its mainland.
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