Agreed on EU. Doug Casey has been screaming about the collapse of EU for pretty much a year. We are living in an omni-bubble. Everything might end up crashing one after another. Then it's Atlas Shrugged all over the west.

What actually happened with Japan is that Russians started an all out attack on the Japanese fronts in China and Korea.

Above is the cause Japan finally gave up. The Russians caused substantial military damaged opposed to the civilian damage done by the A-Bombs.