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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-pearl-harbor-meeting-japanese-prime -minister/
A Japanese reporter asked Mr. Trump why the U.S. didn't alert allies like Japan ahead of the Iran strikes, a decision that the reporter said "confused" the Japanese. The president, in his response, said his administration "didn't tell anyone" about the Feb. 28 military action in advance.
"Well one thing, you don't want to signal too much, you know?" Mr. Trump said. "When we go in, we went in very hard. And we didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? OK? Right?"
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This is the perfect metaphor. Just like everyone knew that Japan and America were going to fight in WW2, war between America and the Muslims who stole Iran was inevitable.
The Japanese get a lot of flak (pun intended) for not making a formal declaration of war before Pearl Harbor, but it was an acknowledgement of the realities of fully industrialized war: you don't allow the enemy any advantage.
You can clutch your pearls all you want, America doesn't fight fair.
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>>1498830
this is the best thing an American president has ever said. It is the depth of stupidity for a Jap to complain to an American about a sneak attack.
We didn't drop near enough nukes on those slant-eyed demons.
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>>1498830
>Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
because it happened before you were born, you pathetic moron.
It would've been better to ask why they didn't tell US about it. But he had to make it all about him, and he was born five years after the attacks.
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>>1498895
The "royal we" is historically used when a monarch refers to themselves as the state. Trump and takaichi aren't monarchs, he didn't say we he said me, but it's still the appropriate phrase. There's no such thing as singularis majestatis but sure, call it the "royal me" if you want. Dumb burgers.
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>>1498919
Royal me isn't a thing. And further more makes no fucking sense when you're talking about an action that took place not only when he wasn't president, but also not even born yet. Imagine if he said "You know a terrible thing happened to me during the civil war". Would that make any sense?
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>>1498925
Grammatically it would be "a terrible thing happened to us" and both that and what trump said are examples of the royal we. If you have a different term to describe a head of state personifying themselves as their nation, suggest it. Burgers getting btfo all over the place today
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>>1498928
>If you have a different term to describe a head of state personifying themselves as their nation, suggest it.
One, that's not a thing, especially here. Two, royal we doesn't work that way. Now stop engagement farming on this fucking site and instead generate me a recipe for a grilled cheese.
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>>1498830
Look... you're supposed to brief them with the intelligence report before you bomb Iran. You build a tactic with them. This isn't just stupid it's insane. Plus you insult them at the same time you ask them for help with murdering a bunch of people. Yeah I'd call that pretty confusing. As well as disturbing... You don't trust them to show them the plan but you want help? watt??? how the fuck is this even happening right now??? What do they expect them to even do?
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>>1498934
Its funny as well because not only does Trump bringing up Pearl Harbor make no sense because she was asking why he didn't inform or co-ordinate with allies, Pearl Harbor is also one of the prime examples of why you let allies know about your planned surprise attacks and co-ordinate with them.
Pearl Harbor happened without Japan informing the other axis powers of the plan for attack. Hitler was incredibly against it because he knew it would drag the USA into the war and they would definitively side with the allies, while they had been pretty much nuetral and willing to sell to both sides before that.
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>>1498939
The irony is Japanese bombers at Pearl Harbor deliberately avoided bombing hospitals and civilians. Meanwhile the US blew up a school effectively for fun then tried to blame Iran for it even though it was bombed during the US' bombings and by a US missile.
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>>1498940
So rather then combine all our brilliance and power into one... we fine Americans decided not to and pulled some seriously stupid shit. We don't trust you help us. Lmao... yeah, Trump has lost his fucking mind.
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>>1498946
Japan has no recent intel reports on Iran and America didn't give them one. How they fuck do they expect them to be effective or just go with this insane plan? or rather lack of plan. What does he expect japan to do? Air drop in ninjas and robots? LMAO.
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>>1498947
He's frantically trying to get help on the Strait in any sense because he knows deploying troops is getting the nation into another forever war that'll solidify the Dems winning in November and likely get him impeached.
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Because South Korea smuggled strategic materials to Iran, Iran was able to arm itself with weapons of mass destruction.
South Korean Firms Violate International Controls on Shipping Materials for WMDs to Iran and Syria
https://japan-forward.com/south-korean-firms-violate-international-con trols-on-shipping-materials-for-wmd s-to-iran-and-syria/
Editorial: S. Korea should clearly explain fire-control radar incident
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20181228/p2a/00m/0na/017000c
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Fuck their oil blow it all up send them back to the stone age for ten years and come on home. Let them bomb the middle east if they want. If they touch our soil we nuke them. We produce our own oil we don't need theirs.
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>>1498950
>that'll solidify the Dems winning in November and likely get him impeached.
I don't know why he'd be worried about that. He already runs the country like a king without giving a shit about congress, and he's already looking to rig the midterms.
>>1498953
>We produce our own oil we don't need theirs.
That's not how it works.
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Japan warning America before the Pearl harbor attack ?
I better comparison would have been if Japan let Germany know before the Pearl harbor attack.
But this dummy: "Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports," Trump said, describing the 1775 Continental Army.
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>>1499105
Yeah but you're missing the context that America already very much favored the allies prior to Pearl Harbor. Hitler already knew that the moment they were brought into the war they'd be joining in against Germany too.
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>>1499144
1950's footage of early nuclear tests were fabricated to scare the russians. They used tiny models, not actual buildings.
You can tell because vehicles and certain objects surrounding the buildings spontaneously disappear after the detonation. Also the fact that the buildings are being vaporized while the camera is totally fine and functional.
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>>1498850
>The Japanese get a lot of flak (pun intended) for not making a formal declaration of war before Pearl Harbor, but it was an acknowledgement of the realities of fully industrialized war: you don't allow the enemy any advantage
They actually did declare war, but because of some shenanigans, I believe it was the diplomat messing up the time zones, the declaration came after the attack.
Anyways
>You can clutch your pearls all you want, America doesn't fight fair.
Are you retarded? The question is about the US letting its allies know it was gonna start the dumbest war of the century. Which is quite the achievement considering the full scale invasion of Ukraine is only 4 years old.
>>1499144
Apparently there is now a conspiracy theories that nukes are fake that's starting to gain popularity. Because I suppose we're collectively in a race to the bottom of what the dumbest shit our species can do, before we wipe ourselves out, is.
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