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FEOC and the Black Ships: How America Is Replaying Gunboat Diplomacy Against Itself
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FEOC and the Black Ships: How America Is Replaying Gunboat Diplomacy Against Itself
Torrance CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed four coal-powered warships into Edo Bay and pointed their cannons at Japan. The ships belched black smoke, rattled the shoreline, and terrified a nation that had never seen industrial warfare up close. Perry called it diplomacy. The Japanese called them the Kurofune - the Black Ships. They worked. Japan opened its ports, not because it agreed,
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