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An argument over how much Japan should compensate the rest of Asian for its WW2 actions is not the same as an argument over whether Japan should do so, no how much you want to try and conflate the two.

Because the Japanese themselves didn't give a shit, and the Emperor Cult wasn't a religion in the same way that Christianity is a religion. You might as well claim that Germany was culturally genocided because the Allies aimed to stamp out Prussianism once and for all. Like, if if some secular...

It's the US which has tried to take that back for 73 years, and the Japanese who consistently said "No, we remember when we had an army, it fucking sucked and we got nuked." If Japan was a puppet, they would have had a real army a long time ago, not the other way around.

The US didn't have conscription due to some lack of volunteers. It was because there was no capacity to handle the inevitable flood of volunteers. Instead of just trying to train millions of men right away (who may be needed for other things on the homefront anyways), you use conscription to...

We cannot let nuclear powers annex territory and hide behind their nukes to get away with it, because the results would be catastrophic for everyone. Or what, do we just let South Korea get annexed by North Korea tomorrow if the latter waves its nukes around? Like, we didn't struggle against...