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RazorbackExpat

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24. She was really buttering him up

Reply to betsuni (Reply #22)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:52 PM

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Repeating all that crap about him stopping wars and taking an unprecedented peace initiative in Gaza and telling him how wonderful his diplomatic skills are. Surely she knows it's a lot of hokum. But I think she realizes she has to stay on his "good" side, because Japan has 3 adversarial neighbors to its immediate west, and Japan needs strategic partnerships for critical minerals and other things. Also, Japan seems have avoided the problems that some Europeans have faced when trying to enter the US, and I would assume she doesn't want to rock that boat.

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