The Japanese would have burned America to the ground and enslaved everyone.

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Jan 28, 2023
1:06:49pm

demon_llama All-American

It was a lost cause from the beginning. But look at what they did to China to see what they would have done to America.

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demon_llama

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Try to imagine what happens to your family if you lived in Japan 1944-‘45

OU Cougar

1/28/23 12:43pm

Don't attack America.

wildlandfireguy

1/28/23 12:44pm

Yep. Literally paid back 1000 fold for Pearl Harbor

OU Cougar

1/28/23 12:46pm

Pearl Harbor was only one in a long line of atrocities committed by the Japanese

Junior Deputy

1/28/23 12:54pm

Agree that a philosophy that everyone else exists to serve your nation as slaves

OU Cougar

1/28/23 1:00pm

Not just Pearl Harbor. They declared war on the United States, the first part of which was a sneak attack on Hawaii, but

mvtoro

1/28/23 1:02pm

You know they attacked our troops and allies throughout the Pacific on the same day, right?

2FarGone

1/28/23 1:14pm

Yeah. Just comparing our actual US homeland experience to theirs

OU Cougar

1/28/23 1:16pm

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TrackCoug

1/28/23 12:55pm

Plus the Japanese were vicious. This goes both ways

TNT

1/28/23 1:02pm

They're in the minority. Japan is a very close ally and most Japanese love US

Schultz is back

1/28/23 1:06pm

The mutual respect between Americans and Japanese, generally, is an incredible

shoganai

1/28/23 1:13pm

Mostly due to how Tuman and MacArthur ran postwar Japan.

Orem58thBall

1/28/23 3:04pm

The Japanese would have burned America to the ground and enslaved everyone.

demon_llama

1/28/23 1:06pm

To be fair, there was a different kind of animosity between Japan and China

FabLabCougar

1/28/23 1:10pm

This is why us Americans have no margin for error

OU Cougar

1/28/23 1:10pm

Be professional but have a plan to kill everyone in the room.

demon_llama

1/28/23 1:11pm

Actually, geopolitically we have immense margins of error (the built in

J. Walter Weatherman

1/28/23 1:19pm

Peace through superior firepower.

valcorger

1/28/23 2:48pm

China, Japan, and Korea have spent millennia conquering each other

Schultz is back

1/28/23 1:20pm

Forgave??? Do you know they actually ate their POWs in the Philippines?

2FarGone

1/28/23 1:20pm

All this is true. But I don't think it's the point of the OP. I believe he's

777

1/28/23 1:28pm

That random farmer was part of the 28MM strong civilian defense force

2FarGone

1/28/23 1:34pm

Meh...I don't think every civilian was a fault. Change the OP to the perspective

777

1/28/23 1:42pm

Have read extensively on WWII/Japan and never read of Tokyo being on "the list"

BlueInfidel

1/29/23 5:39am

My grandparents (WWII vets) were very untrusting of the Japanese after the war

stenso

1/28/23 1:52pm

My grandpa flew B-29s after Pearl. My other grandpa was very high up in the

yellowboy

1/28/23 1:58pm

Read Unbroken and you'll have a different opinion of who should forgive who.

Tmoney1969

1/28/23 1:59pm

So my mom was born in 42. To this day if you say anything bad about Hirohito

yellowboy

1/28/23 2:07pm

RE: Read Unbroken and you'll have a different opinion of who should forgive who.

wislim

1/28/23 3:51pm

Thanks...gonna have to add some books to my library!

Tmoney1969

1/28/23 4:22pm

My wife’s parents did and what you said is not true. Half were not homeless.

valleus

1/28/23 2:04pm

The loss kick-started their demographic death spiral

RevolutionDeathsquad

1/28/23 2:11pm

This is inaccurate. No historian would ever make that statement.

Schultz is back

1/28/23 4:56pm

RE: Try to imagine what happens to your family if you lived in Japan

OriginalBlue

1/28/23 4:34pm

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