The art of the deal
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Despite everything I can never quite get over what a complete moron this guy is:
U.S. President Donald Trump complained Thursday that his country’s decades-old security treaty with Japan is nonreciprocal, as he steps up pressure on allies to increase defense spending and buy more American products.
While speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump suddenly touched on Japan. “I love Japan. We have a great relationship with Japan, but we have an interesting deal with Japan that we have to protect them, but they don’t have to protect us,” he said.
“That’s the way the deal reads…and by the way, they make a fortune with us economically,” he said. “I actually ask who makes these deals?”
The answer to who makes these deals is a simple one: the United States. Following World War II, American General Douglas MacArthur dismantled the Japanese military. Now, Japan has a volunteer self-defense force which trains like a military, but only has the legal ability to protect Japan, not to engage in expansionism or defend other countries outside of its borders.
The U.S. and Japan also negotiated the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty between 1951 and 1960, which gives the U.S. the right to maintain military bases in Japan so that it has a presence in Asia, so long as it protects Japan if the nation is attacked.
Looking forward to the “why did we get involved in World War II anyway?” question that Trump is pretty sure to ask in the near future. To be fair this is something historians should really look into sometime. Why does Trump always have to ask the questions no one else has ever even thought of asking?