One More Thing

Today I learned — in the midst of this longer post about Trump's National Security Strategy document and historian Robert Kagan's view of things on the Weekly Sift—

...Japan...came out of World War I with a largely democratic pro-American government. But in the 1920s, America instituted high tariffs and strong barriers to immigration. [P]olitics in Japan completely shifts, and then you get the Japan that invades Manchuria in 1931.

Tariffs! Let's have more of them. Sure! They're so good for children and other living things.

I try very hard not to be interested in foreign policy (there's so much to worry about domestically).

But as the saying goes about people who claim not to be interested politics generally... it doesn't mean that foreign policy won't take an interest in you.