NOBODY tells Americans this part of the story.
In 2009, Japan elected a government that treated your alliance like garbage.
Our Prime Minister looked your President in the eye and said "Trust me."
Then he broke his word.
Your bases were called a burden. Your soldiers were treated like a problem. US-Japan relations hit their COLDEST point in 50 years.
And our economy? Two lost decades. Deflation. Despair.
Then March 11, 2011.
America had EVERY excuse to say "not our problem."
A government that insulted you.
An ally that acted ungrateful.
A country that seemed to have forgotten you.
You know what America did?
24,000 troops. 24 ships. 189 aircraft.
You didn't ask if our politicians deserved it.
You saw old people freezing in the dark with no food, no water, no heat.
That was enough for you.
Here is what every Japanese person understood that day:
You didn't come for our government.
You came for US. The people.
Governments fight. Governments fail. Governments apologize and lie.
But you dug through black mud for strangers whose leaders had spit on you.
That autumn, 82% of Japanese said they felt friendly toward America. The highest ever recorded.
Not because of a treaty.
Because when we were at our weakest, and you had every reason to turn away โ
YOU. SHOWED. UP.
Japan will never forget who came when even our own leaders had failed us. ๐บ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ต
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@KatKanada_TM Why not? You seem to think canadians are smart, well informed and totally rational people.
I say they are on majority LOW-IQ morons who hate the USA because of their own mismanagement.
@oidonhagouda True, but the way your importing immigrants that will end up being a story.
"Remember when we were a high trust society? Those were the good old days."
@0xVelt Because they bring in football prodigies from Africa and label them "refugees" and immediately put them in football training programs in France and subsidize their living.
It's fake and makes the world cup pretty stupid.