@ShanghaoJin I didn't expect you to grasp the essence of history so well. From the Meiji Restoration to Japan's defeat, the two most fundamental psychological foundations of Japan's development were: 1. Representing East Asia; if other East Asian countries didn't proactively pursue civilization, then Japan would help them become civilized. 2. Being surrounded and oppressed, especially after the Great Depression, with factories and rural areas going bankrupt, they followed the military in fighting them!
@ShanghaoJin The Japanese Constitution has too many loopholes. As long as the cabinet cannot meet the military's demands, the military will launch an indefinite resignation of the Ministers of the Army and Navy until a cabinet that can satisfy their appetite comes to power.
@ShanghaoJin This is why I immigrated; otherwise, Jiabiangou would be welcoming me with open arms. The mainland has always only needed people and mines.
@ShanghaoJin The US's confrontation with Japan didn't begin after World War I, but rather before the Russo-Japanese War was even over! Japan's strength in the Russo-Japanese War shocked the US, and from then on, Japan became America's biggest enemy in the Pacific. The US isn't some moral paragon; it simply felt threatened by Japan's growing power. After all, both countries sought hegemony in the Pacific, and two tigers cannot share one mountain. The US's actions against Japan weren't out of kindness, but because it was pursuing its own hegemony!
@ShanghaoJin Once a country chooses the latter interpretation, it no longer needs to reflect.
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(This is absolutely not intended to allude to the citizens of the two major powers, China and the US; it's not easy for us small countries to survive in the cracks.) x.com/lanque300825/status/2084…
@ShanghaoJin Of course, Japan deserved to be beaten after its subsequent actions; its populism was outrageously rampant. However, I disagree with the notion that the US and UK were completely innocent and 100% naive in this matter. The Anglo-Japanese alliance was formed because Britain needed a Far Eastern ally to contain Russia, and the Japanese shed countless blood in the process. The US's actions against Japan weren't based on any international morality; it was simply that the two countries were destined to compete for hegemony in the Pacific, regardless of Article 21 or the September 18 Incident.
@LGWthe You do the first thing, others do the fifteenth. As a weaker nation, you don't have the right to do the first thing; even if others do, you should know how to be tolerant. How can you be so delusional about being persecuted every day?
The main reason Britain and the US suppress Japan is actually to protect China. China's good fortune over the past 100 years has been thanks to riding on America's coattails.
@ShanghaoJin The UK and US suppress Japan for their own national interests, how could it be to protect China? As for riding on the US's coattails, isn't that mutual assistance? Didn't the sacrifices and perseverance of the Chinese people in the anti-fascist war earn them their own hard-won gains? Didn't China earn its foreign exchange reserves over the years through countless goods? Would the US simply give money to China for nothing?
