“You just can’t come up here with an invoice and say, you know, ‘pay this’ and expect to have great cooperation going forward.”
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Iran chokes Iraq’s budget: 94% oil exports via Hormuz halted, production down 70%, $6-7B monthly losses.
While PM Takaichi pledges a “golden age” for the U.S.-Japan alliance and an expedited 2% GDP defense target, complex fiscal constraints, a new political coalition, questionable procurement plans, and stalled high-level dialogue threaten to undermine Tokyo’s ambitious security pivot.