The Amerikkkan Idol
The Amerikkkan Nightmare
Do you want them to
In seriousness tho...
We help rebuilt their economy, modernize their infrastructure, etc. To a point where Japan was the 2nd biggest economy in the world after the USA during the 80s
America even gave their Japanese-Americans reparations and most of the cars bought in America are Japanese. And they still the 3rd largest economy.
This
Chalmers Johnson goes in on depth in "BLowback", where he talks about the US gave Japan EVERYTHING in terms of technology and patents and just really set them up in becoming the 2nd largest economy on the planet by the '80s, so they wouldn't fall into the arms of the Russians.
I was sitting there reading this like

That's why you have shyt like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan that just go on and on and on and then just kinda end with nothing accomplished.
Those wars go on and on because they're not intended to be "won".
Those wars are about essentially allowing the military industrial complex to launder money and to expand the empire.
America could easily win wars in a few months with the 3/4 of a billion dollars we spend on the military each year
