Things got crazy awkward during an Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, when a reporter asked Trump why he hadn't warned Japan before attacking Iran. "One thing, you don't want to signal too much," Trump said. "Who knows better about surprise than Japan, okay? Hey, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
How are you, American Unity?
A Japanese admiral was against attacking the US, made famous by the line: "Now we have awakened a sleeping giant" in the film Tora! Tora! Tora!
After the Meiji Period, Japan sent Defense Attaches, spies, delegates all over the world to learn from the West.
Tokyo knew who was powerful and who wasn't.
The Japanese basically copied the UK's surprise attack on Italian ships at Taranto (1940).
Japan, like Italy's powerful OVRA, had an excellent espionage service which makes another book recommendation for you:
I own two copies of this book/b>
#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS
I'll check it out. Thanks. I try keep a 50-50 balance for reading fiction-nonfiction.
Many years ago, I read great book about the attack on Pearl Harbor - considered the gold standard - "At Dawn We Slept."
It was abridged from several exhaustively researched volumes, telling the tale from both sides (including accounts based on interviews with Japanese and Americans) about the planning and execution of the attack. I can HIGHLY recommended it!
I can't remember the ambassador's name, but IIRC he was misled as well.
Meanwhile, our wet, squishy fart of a president mouth-farted in bad taste with the Japanese PM sitting 3' away.
"Perry was ready to use military force."
We made the Japanese an offer they couldn't refuse.
We did the same thing in Korea, and a few hundred people died.
Funny how we don't teach the Korea one in grade school.
The Battle of Ganghwa was fought during the 1871 United States expedition to Korea, a conflict between Joseon and the United States. In May of that year, five Asiatic Squadron warships set sail from Japan to ascertain what happened to the crew of the SS General Sherman as well as to establish a trade treaty with the Hermit Kingdom similar to the one Commodore Perry had pressured Japan into adopting in the early 1850s. When American forces arrived in Korea, the originally peaceful mission turned into a battle when guns from a Korean fort suddenly opened fire on the Americans. The battle to capture Ganghwa Island's forts was the largest engagement of the conflict.
en.wikipedia.org
Why are Americans so sensitive? Hell I would be surprised if the Japanese care as much as AU.
You would be surprised, of course, because you are an idiot.
So. Perfectly understandable.
Meanwhile back in reality land..
Many in Japan found the comment inappropriate, particularly as they have grown accustomed to American presidents avoiding harsh discussions of Pearl Harbor in favor of focusing on reconciliation, per The New York Times. archive.is
Takaichi herself received backlash in Japan for not responding to the joke and for her attempts to flatter Trump later that day, with some commentators calling her approach "embarrassing".
**** Dummkopf Trumpf: "I'm healthier than the US Navy football champions" ****
"He said I'm the healthiest human being he's ever seen," Trumpf (79) bleated. "Ronny " am I healthier than these guys back here?"
"Yes, sir," Jackson shouted.
"See, this is why I like him," Trumpf responded.
The morbidly obese geriatric silver-spooned wife-cheating pedophilic POTUS sniveled that that the former WH physician said:
"If he didn't eat junk food, he'd live to 200 years old. I love this guy."
Source: bsky.app
Truth,
That response was for Eff.
I'm not interested in going down your rabbit hole.
It's pointless.
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