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Originally Posted by komitsuki
That's the business level. I'm talking about the political level. And not all countries' friendly relationships are equal.
Even there are many countries in the world whose public or government don't like America and still willing to trade with America. After all, (petro)dollar doesn't know any boundary and America has the opportunity to do anything to do business with other unfriendly countries in a passive way.
But at least Japan is doing a very good job of unintentionally breaking Japan-American friendship. Of course it's from the ongoing self-collapse of a very USA-friendly party called LDP.
I don't mean to offend proud America, but since I used to live in South Korea for a long time I do have a cynical attitudes towards America.
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Yes i am American but im not one who defends my country blindly i give criticism when its do and a pat on the back when it due. The only thing that bothers me is when other dont take a real inward look at their own country and ask is my country really so much better than the one im bashing. Blaming and pointing fingers only goes so far we spend more time blaming each other rather than coming together to fix a problem that concerns us all.
I have no problem with Japan or any other country doing whats best for their country but i still dont see your thoughts as rational and i still dont see how it would benefit Japan in the long run.
Ronin4hire already mentioned it but political it still doesn't make sense. I do like his Idea about India playing a power role. What we need is a balance of power and i for one would be happy if my country wouldn't dip their fingers into everything around the world and learned to share power. There is a lot to be gained from working together. I cant see Japan breaking a Japanese-American friendship a reduced role of following Americas lead yes but a complete cut off it would not benefit them.
I respect your views i just dont agree with them. We dont know whats going to happen over the next couple of years. I think the US will pull itself out of this stick mess because that what we do history proves it. But weather we come out just as strong is debatable i just really would like more multilateral foreign policy from a number of countries.