The Japanese Navy Izumo-class Destroyers

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
3 min readJun 20, 2024

In today’s article, I will discuss the impact of the Japanese expanding their carrier fleet and naval capacities in the Indo-Pacific region and what that means in international relations and geopolitics.

The number one reason for the expansion of Japanese military power is that the United States of America has been withdrawing from its global commitments as the protector of international free trade since the end of the Cold War in 1989.

The United States created globalisation, as we understand it, as a bribe to win over allies against…

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.