"Who are you thinking was held accountable for the atrocities committed in both world wars?
A couple of German officers were thrown under the bus at the Nuremberg trials, sure, but far more avoided prosecution by either fleeing to places like Canada and Argentina, or by being given cushy office jobs at places like the universities in the US or high ranking positions in the United Nations.
The German citizens certainly ate their fair share of financial penalties from the US as the outcome for both world wars, though. The penalties resulting from the first world war being what gave Hitler enough popularity amongst the population to be voted into power to enact his vision for Nationalsozialistische to begin with.
It's a similar story for the Japanese economy, with their doctors who committed some of the most gruesome live human experimentation ever documented being given a pass by the Americans in exchange for the data Unit 751 gained from their unconscionable experiments.
Experiments like forcing prisoners of war to drink water until their stomachs became distended, followed by, wait for it, kicking their distended stomach to see what would happen.
I'm sure you'll agree there's plenty of good that can come from exchanging that data for zero penalities for the psychopaths who gathered it. (This is sarcasm. There is no reasonable explanation for how knowing what happens when you kick a stomach distended with an unnatural amount of forcefed water would benefit any medical professional in the day to day treatments of any medical professional that could not just as easily be gained from treating anyone abused in such a horrific manner)
Just not for the average Japanese citizen who had zero bearing on those experiments ever being done without their knowledge.
Because the Japanese economy has never recovered from the sanctions placed on them at the end of ww2."
If Trump is the populist leader and good man he makes himself out to be, he owes it to his constituents to get ahead of this and take a blow for the team.