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What fallacy is it when you are asked to prove your claim, but instead give a soundbite that vaguely relates to the topic? To the OP: America is much wealthier and better off than Japan. If Japan is at peace, it's only because it's dying and doesn't have the energy. Don't envy this living corpse.

And what makes you think it isn't false? I'm not in the habit of blandly accepting any emotionally charged political rant.

Your argument is....quoting some weirdo who wrote some BAEN thriller? Be serious.

It doesn't matter. The US has a larger GDP, the best Universities, more aircraft carriers than everyone else put together, dominance or near dominance in every major field of science, and alliances with every major economic and military power of note with the exception of China. That's just...

You call this falling apart? The US has dominance on every continent, every Western country is wealthy, all its external enemies are broken or doomed, and its culture dictates world culture.

How is it similar? Japan has a decreasing population, a GDP that's basically still, and a hopeless generation of losers. Meanwhile, the West is designing robots and planning space colonies.

Japan is a geriatric country in an eternal recession where increasing shares of young men have become porn addicted NEETs. They're not something to emulate.