Why are countries paying to host USA?

It's genuinely been a good deal on paper for a few decades - it's far cheaper than keeping your own equivalent military, which would've been prohibited by the Japanese constitution anyway before recent reforms. But the US has obviously proven to be an unreliable and dubious partner in recent years, and the very public and high-profile issues between personnel and locals is well-documented and has lasted decades.

Furthermore, the US is painfully aware of Japan's economic crisis, and that it is barely managing to keep the yen from crashing while also preventing an interest rate hike that would bankrupt it on loan repayments. This is US abuse of an ally to try to have their cake and eat it too.

Watching conservatives attempt to engage in international diplomacy is like watching a llama lick its asshole. It's both horrible and fascinating. But mostly horrible.

The utter destruction of the carefully constructed illusions and facades surrounding decades of heavy-handed US foreign policy and the systematic dismantling of US imperialism and the resulting growing resistance to their international meddling and bullying are the only Trump policies I actually agree with him on. He doesn't really seem to understand he's doing it, and it's coming at a horrible, horrible cost to global security and safety that really is going to inevitably come back to haunt the whole world, but aside from that, it's much overdue and I love to see it. I wish it could've been done for sensible reasons in a methodical way instead of this chaotic and reactionary reckoning from the flailing of a madman, but alas, here we are. Pax Americana was mismanaged until it became a luxury too costly and painful for anyone to afford, least of all the US.

Stop paying. It’s all bullshit.

No, we should go away and leave them alone

Japan should kick out the occupiers and tell their imperialist corporate overlords to commit sepiku...

And if Japan doesn't agree, the US will what exactly?