re: #53 Targetpractice

I suspect Abe came away from his meeting with Trump with even greater evidence that the hardliners back home are right and that Japan is going to need to further militarize if it wishes to assert its independence from America. I would not be surprised if the question of whether or not to amend Article IX comes up again in the near future.

Japan’s foreign ministry probably noted that Trump did not use the prepared remarks at his disposal for the presser about the North Korea missile launch. Instead, he winged it, offering only platitudes that were no better than a teenage beauty queen could have come up with.

Trump is a total amateur. A high school senior class president could do a better job.