Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses how the disputed Senkaku Islands could ignite a China-Japan conflagration; the return of militant nationalism in Asia; why the US should gracefully withdraw from China’s regional sphere of influence; the economic limitations of US empire going forward; attacks on Shia minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan; and the military-industrial complex’s motivation to stay in Afghanistan forever.
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