You use words that don't make sense. If the cabal "goaded" the Japanese into attacking, how were the Japanese the "aggressors?"
If, for instance, someone stole your wife's purse and you attacked them to get it back, would you be considered the "aggressor?"
Not to get in too much of an argument, but it was Perry who planted the American flag on Okinawa, an independent kingdom protected by both Japan and China to facilitate trade and maintain peace, in order to pressure the Japanese into opening up Japan to US and the West.
History means nothing if you only look at select parts of it.
I make no claim of right or wrong as regards Japan or US actions throughout history, but lets read the entire account into any argument.
It is certainly relevant to your response w/re to the PH argument. And, frankly, your attempt to avoid addressing my comments as irrelevant when they clearly comparable and rebut your comments lends doubts about the credibility of your wall of text here.
We all support Trump but we don't need to make up and cherry pick facts to do so.
A little more history. It was the west who financed the Japanese military and encouraged the war with Russia. Russia surrendered and paid reparations which the Japanese never received. It was the US which would not allow Japan to have equal standing in the League of Nations. It was the West who denied Japan the right to built a naval force strong enough to defend the island nation.
From the mind of the Japanese what did the west teach them? Maybe that imperialism was just the nature of life at the time.
One of Trump's strongest campaign was to end foreign wars. It is similar to the founders who wanted to trade with everyone but not have military alliances with any. Unfortunately, during that period, America was caught up in the notion of manifest destiny in the age of western imperialism.
Again, not judging right or wrong, just stating the history.