The only Europeans that were allowed to trade with the Japanese following the expulsion of all christians were the Dutch.
During the Sakoku, the isolationist foreign policy of the Tokugawa shogunate, the only contact with european influence allowed was with the Dutch who had a factory at Dejima in Nagasaki, and through the Dutch East India Company who was allowed to operate in Nagasaki.
The conclusion is that although a US president can technically send troops into a foreign country, in order to lawfully declare war, he or she must get the approval of Congress.
This isn’t something I can answer. It’s personal choice, if it were me tho. I would say “I would, Only because if we didn’t do it everyone would think it’s okay to bomb us”
A decentralized political system