This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel with Michael Yon. You can follow Michael

very carefully at Patreon, Michael. You're still on Patreon or where'd you move to?

I moved over to local, to a substack, to substack. Oh, good. Yes, substack is the hot new property.

Michael Yon at Substack. Patreon went woke. I understand, Michael.

I just need to find you.

You move around a lot.

We're going back to your visit to Okinawa

and your measure of the Japanese homeland, home islands.

Are they still devoted to defending themselves

and their allies in East Asia? Or has there been a change of

wind in Tokyo? I see the Japanese becoming slowly at first stronger. And it seems to be picking up

speed, actually. And that's why my team and I, we take Misako Ganaha all over the world.

She's a Japanese journalist from Okinawa, right?

She's actually staying in the same hotel.

We're all going to be doing a joint interview tonight, right?

My team in Masaco.

And the reason that we're moving around, we're taking

Masako all over the place is because these fighters from different countries, whether it be

Thailand or Japan, they need to see how they fit into this larger picture. Because you don't,

you can't fight this fight just on your beach right once you if you're fighting on

your beach you've already kind of lost the war right so now that masaco we've taken her to about 30

countries she sees more how japan fits into this larger picture and she's been you know go always goes

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