One could potentially interperet their deciding to do Not what Sec Tres Bessent wanted them to do with their bond market as a pretty big 'fuck you'.

Yen carry trade is unwinding? Fuck it, help it along, better for the Japanese from their POV to do so. Not like American military prowess is worth shit anyway, vis a vis Iran.

... there have been a fair number of mass demonstrations and riots in Okinawa, when a US soldier rapes a local woman... its a substantial part of the local politics in a few parts of Japan, specifically legally restricting and punishing US enlisted doing shitty things on their leave.

And Korea? The entire country was essentially literally raped, its uh, kinda still a massively contentious Korea v Japan issue, seeing as Japan still won't formally admit how bad their actions were.

... and these are two of basically our best allies, with very strong economies.

Beyond being repulsive, you have to be a complete fucking moron to joke about rape irt SK and JPN... their media will run this, and people will be angry, rightfully.

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Also, Trump bringing up Hiroshima was sufficient to actually break the 'etiquette-mask' of the Japanese PM... a lifelong political operative, in a country where formality is its own language.

That stunned me more than Trump saying it, honestly. She was genuienly so offended that she could not keep the formality theatre act.

I couldn't believe either part of what I was seeing, in that exhange.