>>2430184>Mfw my logic is completely fucking brokenMLs are genuinely dumber than the average child
>>2431261Because Japan isn’t ideologically committed to America? Fuck why do leftoids struggle so hard to analyze states from the perspective of national capital instead of this liberal nonsense where you pretend that states and governments are actual individual people? Japan’s economy is completely flush with US dollars, America functionally controls its economy and thus a lot of its foreign economic policy through that lever due to how dependent Japan, like all of America’s stated allies, have been made on the USA in some sense, in the most obvious case the military (America is still occupying Japan and Japan’s military is nothing compared to all its regional competitors, from China, to the Koreas, to India and Pakistan and possibly even countries like Vietnam) and less obviously, if America gutted trade with Japan and then manipulated their own currency Japan would be hit much harder than America; most of the Japanese capitals just aren’t willing to eat such losses, and the military doesn’t want to risk either facing its adversaries without support or turning America into an open adversary; at least the hegemonic factions in these two structures