[Rule35]

It still has American military bases. The war ended in 1945.

It didn't get a choice in receiving them, unlike other countries.

[quonn]

It absolutely has that choice now. There are various benefits to having them, mostly economic.

[Rule35]

Yeah, 80 years of occupation and stabilization later they sure could. That's why we did it, to prepare them to support themselves again but from a more stable base.

But what's your point? That colonization doesn't always work? Sure.