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Japan started a total war. America finished it
Whether in silence or speech, pride or doubt, they carried the memory with them
While the President can make good on his promise to hike tariffs, he cannot make other countries shoulder the tax bill
Trump will be able to claim a negotiating success. But that doesn’t mean Americans will be better off for it
To be fair to Ishiba, he appears to have done what he could
The President is risking something more – the diminishment of his political superpower: unpredictability
The tariffs are an annoyance, but not much more than that
Trump has labeled the Japanese negotiators ‘very tough,’ which probably means they have, to his great surprise, not rolled over
