The official policy of the U.S. Government is that <answer>Thailand</answer> was not an ally of the Axis, and that the United States was not at war with <answer>Thailand</answer>. The policy of the U.S. Government ever since 1945 has been to treat <answer>Thailand</answer> not as a former enemy, but rather as a country which had been forced into certain actions by Japanese blackmail, before being occupied by Japanese troops. <answer>Thailand</answer> has been treated by the United States in the same way as such other Axis-occupied countries as Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands.
According to the USA, what country did Japan blackmail?
Thailand