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Japan never was a threat during that time to countries around it. China is very much a threat to other countries around it and I would feel pretty bad about mat
by jacquesm 10mo ago
Japan never was a threat during that time to countries around it. China is very much a threat to other countries around it and I would feel pretty bad about materially financing yet another war.
- tmnvix 10mo agoI'm beginning to feel this way about the US. Much more comfortable with Chinese foreign policy at this point. At this point, going on the past 50 years or so, it would take something quite extraordinary on China's part to convince me they are going to abuse their power as much as the US has so far. Hopefully I'm not simply being naive.
- bluGill 10mo agoYou need to pay better attention. I hate what Trump is doing to US foriegn policy - but it is still better than China, and there is hope that things will change in the future as elections continue. China doesn't even have that hope. China is clearly supporting Russia in Ukraine. China is clearly making plans to invade Tiawas (that alone makes them just as bad as the US, even if it hasn't happened yet).
- erxam 10mo agoUnless you start a denazification project and start shooting MAGA cultists en-masse, the US is not recovering. This is a rot that goes beyond one man and one party. Your empire is decaying and it's going to keep lashing out up until it's completely gone.
- woooooo 10mo agoIf we add up "damage to countries around it" in the previous hundred years, I think Japan doesn't look so great. China conducted one several-week war against Vietnam and annexed Tibet, both over 50 years ago. Other than the longstanding dispute with Taiwan, who are they threatening? Some quibbles over a few Himalayan mountains with India?
- fooker 10mo ago> Some quibbles Two wars.
- blackoil 10mo agoOne War. In 1962, i.e. 64 years ago. In meanwhile, US supported genocidal regime of Pakistan killing Hindus and many more in what is now Bangladesh. Sent billions more to Pakistan which are then used to fund terrorist activities in India. and some more recently under Covfefe.
- fooker 10mo agoHere's the other one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathu_La_and_Cho_La_clashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathu_La_and_Cho_La_clashes
- woooooo 10mo ago"The Defence Ministry of India reported: 88 killed and 163 wounded on the Indian side, while 340 killed and 450 wounded on the Chinese side, during the two incidents.[6][7] According to Chinese claims, the number of soldiers killed was 32 on the Chinese side and 65 on the Indian side in Nathu La incident; and 36 Indian soldiers and an 'unknown' number of Chinese were killed in the Cho La incident.[8] " War might be overstating it a bit, "incident" might be more appropriate, but we can round up in the spirit of comity. So adding it all up, the Chinese had 1-2 small foreign wars per decade in the 50s-70s, zero since 1979. It still doesn't justify the phrasing "threatening all their neighbors" in 2025, aside from Taiwan specifically. In the case of the line of control with India, it's reached the point where they're having ritualized fistfights at high altitude for pride, that's just comical. It's not threatening.
- blackoil 10mo agoPersonnel die in those "fistfight", so not comical but also not a war.
- idiotsecant 10mo agoHaha that little 'during that time' is doing some heavy lifting there. You don't think there might have been some slight lingering resentment and fear that the slouching monster that Japan was during WWII would come back? I think Japan's neighbors might have felt 'pretty bad' too, but it didn't matter. In the end the money wins.
- jacquesm 10mo agoYou mean just like the rest of Europe does against Germany or Italy? Hint: we don't.
- idiotsecant 10mo agoAre you implying that there wasn't massive resentment toward Germany and italy in postwar Europe?! Wild claim if so.