Donald Trump is trying to intimidate America’s allies to resume the war that he had grossly misjudged and started for no particular reason.
Trump’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was destined to be a cringe-fest.
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What the world got was a portrait of an aging, desperate, crazy president who didn’t seem to have a clue how to deal with the mess he created.
Trump said he expects Japan to “step up its efforts.”
A member of the Japanese media asked the president: “President, you just mentioned that Japan is stepping up its efforts. What kind of help do you expect from Japan in the future?”
Trump responded:
Look, I expect Japan to take action because, you know, we have this kind of relationship and we, we stand up for Japan, we have 45,000 troops in Japan.
We spend a lot of money on Japan. So, and we had that kind of relationship. So I, I guess, I’m not surprised that they’re stepping up. We don’t need much. We don’t need anything. I mean, honestly, we don’t need anything from Japan or anyone else. I think it’s appropriate for people to step up their efforts.
In the case of Japan, I have heard that more than 90% of its oil passes through the strait. Yes. This is therefore a good reason to intensify our efforts. I mean, we have, we have demolished. This country is about to be demolished. The only thing is the strait. It’s very hard. You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in the water and they would delay things.
Um, we don’t want that to happen. But honestly, Japan, China, uh, Europe, parts of Europe get a lot of their oil through trade; we get almost none. We are less, we are less than 1%. We don’t need to be one percent. We don’t even do it, I think we just do it to be nice, but we, uh, think about it. We don’t use the strait
We defend the strait for everyone else. And then in the case of NATO. They don’t want to help us defend the strait, and they are the ones who need it, but now they are much nicer because they see my attitude. They’re getting nicer and nicer, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s too late.
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The part of the story that Trump left out is that the world didn’t have a problem with the Strait of Hormuz until he started a war with Iran.
Trump does not defend the Straits. Trump is the reason it is closed.
That wasn’t the worst part of the event.