Originally posted by lordofseas
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I know. It was sarcasm. Just like a bunch of it was. However, the US did not station their military in Japan to protect Japan, they put the military in Japan to ensure others that Japanese aggression would not arise again.
US forces are stationed in Japan because Japan is a convenient spot to place communications and storage facilities for the US Pacific Fleet.
Note: The Russians threatened to nuke Poland if the US went ahead with the missile defense program. Russia has little to gain from nuking Poland in practical terms. This was international politics.
Japan did had the upper hand for a while, until the Battle of Midway. And Japan knew that they had to overwhelm the US quickly, otherwise they would lose. And if Japan had known that the US had the capability of killing hundreds of thousands with a single bomb, they never would have attacked.
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