The Japanese never realized they were out of ammo either. No matter which way you think it's going to go it's clear they need to pursue different policies.
probably no way to avert the coming pain now. different policies were needed more than 20 years ago. now you have to burn the whole thing down so that you can rebuild. looks pretty ugly from here.
The only steps left are to imprison you as much as possible by running up debt. This is standard NWO behavior, see other banana republics like Argentinia...