>Seems to me like you can accept a lot of bullshit as future scenarios, then.

nice attitude lololol

I think the US political climate/system is deteriorating. I think it hasn't deteriorated enough yet for something like that. In a future with a more authoritarian USA, I can very well imagine Japan being taken over instead of just being protected against a theorethical Chinese/North Korean attack.

If I had said that nothing in the current world supports such a future but that I can still see it...well, that would have been quite nonsensical.