“ Neither wanted anything to do with the west.”
Seem to me that slave raiding and piracy is wanting to have something to do with the West.
So does the Navy protect us from Muslims that want to enslave us or do they protect us at home? Japan and Hawaii were island kingdoms. Islane mentality thinks of the outside world as all the same. Japan wanted Asia for the asians. Now a stronger China wants the same. It’s get out but keep the money coming in. Neoconish?