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“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” said Trump
From mediocre incompetents to outright villains.
Are they also going to block the ships that Iran and Japan agreed could pass through, for example? Are they really going to screw over a strategic ally like Japan just for…? You know what? Yeah, they definitely would.
maybe Japan shouldn’t have surprise attacked them on december 1941.
Japan only attacked the USA in 1941 because of an oil embargo by the USA
I mean, yeah, but also they were allied with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy at the time. And pursuing their own expansionist ambitions in the Eastern hemisphere.
So japan could do the funniest thing rn
With what navy?
It’s 2026 sir. Give them a Radioshack and time. Power is projected now by soft power and of smart your population is. Sadly we are working with complete deck of cards over here.
See, the problem there is that there are no more Radioshacks…
To be fair, the 1941 attack didn’t use a navy…
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Yes it did. What do you think all those aircraft were launched from? They sure as Hell didn’t fly all the way from the Japanese mainland (or whatever the closest Japanese land-based airfield was at the time)! They didn’t have the range for it: aircraft with ocean-crossing range didn’t start showing up until the Jet Age, after the war.
And then moved their main base from California to the middle of the ocean to serve as a juicy target.
They wanted nothing more than war.
The standard US answer to all countries that become economic competitors.
They didn’t even tell us they were going to
they did
That didn’t stop both countries from being allies for several decades, why would you bring that up now?
Japan asked trump why didn’t you tell us, your allies that you were going to do this to iran?
He said you didn’t tell me about pearl harbor before you struck why would I tell you guys before I did this?
And then all the asshole psychopaths in trumps press room laughed at Japan.
Implying that Japan was actually the US’s enemy.
orangeman brought it up himself not long ago while talking to JP PM
Trump brought it up out of the blue while talking to the Japanese PM a few weeks ago iirc