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[@Dinh AaronMk]Don't say that, I want to keep my Hawaiian pineapples. And the security of all Americans living there of course...sure...But it would for sure put Japan in a situation that they'll need to attack the European/American possessions a lot earlier. Let's see what KingTip says once that matter arises, I'd prefer to have Japan as an ally rather than an enemy. Or are you just trying to have the Dustbowl States stab me in the back? 

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There's really no one stopping anyone from doing anything with the US dead in the water. And really, I'd argue that the Pacific States wouldn't be in any condition to deploy a naval response force to a Japanese invasion. A lot of what the US Navy had to offer was set up or an fit for a nation with as large an infrastructure as it had. Large battle-tubs like Battleships are only really major sea-power platforms, as well as aircraft carriers. Their intensive resource and manpower demands means that they'd be all too expensive for any US rump-state to use.

Not to mention the Republican Party at the time was a very much anti-military party and advocated a small army, and at the time after the First World War, with the War to End all Wars having been fought, the incentive for the US to have an army would have shrunk and all that's left of any military infrastructure is skeletal. And it'd be hard for any rump-state to validate any sort of military expansion under present conditions.

As per Japanese democracy: probably won't happen. It took two nukes and US military occupation to convince the Japanese to see their Emperor as anything but a living God. When the Meiji Emperor himself was visited by former president Ulysses S. Grant and they had a personal discussion man-to-man there was a plot by fanatics to assassinate Grant for polluting the Emperor with his presence, this of course failed but it existed all the same. And the Japanese deploying Nazi-tier campaign propaganda to affirm this means that it's not likely at all. If that were the case then the Chinese should see through our RP Chinese regime's attempts to cover up their weaknesses and they too will fall apart.

This is likely to be what happens should anyone try to advocate for progressive policies:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KROpdUkrM[/youtube]