It's a scary pattern that started post 1900. Basically we ran face first into imperialism.
For all intents - Japan is a vassal state, still. They have their own thing going - we still exert a ton of influence and have tied them to us economically so much that it's an inseparable relationship.
I dunno how to look at that after reading books like The Grand Chessboard.
The Japanese claimed they tried to message about it 2 weeks prior. I left that out.
It’s one of those things we know very little about.
If I recall the actual memo was locked under National Security law for 55 years or so.
It's a scary pattern that started post 1900. Basically we ran face first into imperialism.
For all intents - Japan is a vassal state, still. They have their own thing going - we still exert a ton of influence and have tied them to us economically so much that it's an inseparable relationship.
I dunno how to look at that after reading books like The Grand Chessboard.