Let’s not pretend Japan was some neutral power in the Pacific minding their own business. They were actively expansionist who were doing things like the Rape of Nanjing (1937) and generally making the SS look humanitarian. WW2 was one of the few points in American history where it’s foreign policy was generally good.
Also why the fuck do people defend Imperial Japan? They were doing a lot of the same shit as Nazi Germany but sometimes on even larger scales. They weren’t modern Japan, modern Japan exists because of the war their culture and temperament were more or less reconstructed post war to prevent them from being that bad. The JDF basically has to be strong armed into military expansion meanwhile the IJA and IJN wouldve never stopped.
I mean the US started it all by emargoing Japan’s oil during wartime, so it’s not like Pearl Harbor was some unprovoked thing.
Let’s not pretend Japan was some neutral power in the Pacific minding their own business. They were actively expansionist who were doing things like the Rape of Nanjing (1937) and generally making the SS look humanitarian. WW2 was one of the few points in American history where it’s foreign policy was generally good.
Also why the fuck do people defend Imperial Japan? They were doing a lot of the same shit as Nazi Germany but sometimes on even larger scales. They weren’t modern Japan, modern Japan exists because of the war their culture and temperament were more or less reconstructed post war to prevent them from being that bad. The JDF basically has to be strong armed into military expansion meanwhile the IJA and IJN wouldve never stopped.