The one leader with the brains to do this was Shinzo Abe, whose tatemae was to be every nation's friend, and whose honne was to put Japan first in everything.
He was also be smart enough to know that Trump was the one American leader he could work with, and that this made Trump an enemy of the global state.
If I had any inkling that Japan wanted to return to its colonialist/imperialist past, all this would scare me, but I am convinced that is not in their future: for them it's Japan first, but not Japan uber alles.
Do you think Abe's fate may have been a warning to other Western nationalist leaders?
His death is troubling on many levels.