On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Let's suppose an unlikely event: the Japanese working class rise up &
> make a socialist revolution (of some kind). The rest of the imperial
> world, condemning the expropriation of Japanese & other expropriators,
> swiftly puts an embargo on Japan to restore freedom and democracy.
An embargo which is lifted approximately one millisecond after Japan
threatens to call in the 150 billion euros of the US current account
deficit it's been funding for well over a decade, thus pulling the plug on
the Wall Street Bubble. The rest of Asia quickly falls into line, after
being offered low-interest aid packages worth 3-5% of GDP over the next
twenty years, guaranteed. Finally, Japan and the EU sign a mutual defense
and security pact to prevent those rascal Americans from defaulting on
their 2 trillion euro debt. Southeast Asia booms; the EU shifts to solar
energy; proletarians everywhere begin to throw out neocolonial elites.
Bring on that embargo, I say!
-- Dennis
