Then we need to make sure we keep electing presidents who don’t give a dam about the UN.
Short term, not that hard. Long term, it is.
BTW, history is incredible.
75 years is a blink in the grand scheme but it’s amazing how Japan and the US went from wanting to destroy each other (but let’s not forget who started it) to being good allies.
That’s a good thing.
I wonder what the quickest historical turnaround from War to Good Friends is, in term of years, in history.
I think that if you look at the history of it, you would see that the US and Japan had close relations for more than a century before WWII.
My take is that Japan was the United States’ answer to the colonialism of the Europian nations.
Greedy industrial interests in the US dictated a one-sidedness to the relationship (as always happens with colonialism) that caused Japan to look out for its own interests. It turned to military conquest, largely in China, for this.
History will tell that we backed the wrong Asians. We payed for this in Korea and Vietnam.
At least, that is my take.
“I wonder what the quickest historical turnaround from War to Good Friends is, in term of years, in history.”
Stalin and Hitler in the reverse direction.
A very interesting question by you.