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> Your use of the term "peace" instead of "surrender". As a result of this unconditional surrender Japan was reformed in a way that's very beneficial to the res
by throw0101d 1y ago
> Your use of the term "peace" instead of "surrender". As a result of this unconditional surrender Japan was reformed in a way that's very beneficial to the rest of the world (and, you could say, itself).
In the novel The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick it is argued that Japan and Germany lost WW2 by winning it. IRL, they won WW2 by losing it.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
- throwanem 1y agoI wouldn't really say those were the subjects of Dick's thesis here. 'Close, but no cigar.'