plawolf
Lieutenant General
Re: Japanese Return to Militarism!
Maybe you are not up to date with current affairs, but China is no friend of NK, and is being held hostage by NK as much as America or South Korea.
I have stated multiple times before that I think Beijing would be willing to make a grand bargain with SK, whereby the whole of the Korean Peninsula is reunited under South Korea, in exchange for South Korea allying itself with China.
South Korea may think they can get a better deal sticking with the US, but if Japan shows signs of returning to its militaristic ways and America looks to be encouraging them, then SK's calculations may change accordingly.
Maybe you are not up to date with your history either. It was the Soviets who armed the North Koreans. China did not get involved in the Korean War until the US forces ignored an explicit warnings not to advance too close to the Chinese boarder.
Either you don't know much about your history, in which case I would suggest you familiarise yourself with the relevant details before coming up with conclusions, or that is a case of an attempt to downplay the true nature of Imperialist Japan's war crimes on par with what the revisionists are trying to do with Japanese history books.
Oh please spare us the sanctimonious propaganda about how 'democracies' are inherent better. Just look back at recent history and you can see that your precious democracies are responsible for more than its fair share of wars of aggression since WWII.
Even WWII in Europe could arguably be said to have been started by a democracy. Modern pro-democracy writers would nit pick and spin till they go blue, but the cold hard fact remains that Hitler rose to power via the ballot box, and was wildly popular for pretty much the entire war to the point that had regular elections been held, he would have won by a landslide by any voting system.
It is precisely this kind of blind wishful thinking and complacency that allowed special interests to push democracies into waging wars of aggression in the past, and will make it easy for them to do so again if people simply do not learn.
Indeed we should, although something tells me you and I would come to very different conclusions on who has actually been the bully and who the victim.
Maybe you are not up to date with current affairs, but China is no friend of NK, and is being held hostage by NK as much as America or South Korea.
I have stated multiple times before that I think Beijing would be willing to make a grand bargain with SK, whereby the whole of the Korean Peninsula is reunited under South Korea, in exchange for South Korea allying itself with China.
South Korea may think they can get a better deal sticking with the US, but if Japan shows signs of returning to its militaristic ways and America looks to be encouraging them, then SK's calculations may change accordingly.
Maybe you are not up to date with your history either. It was the Soviets who armed the North Koreans. China did not get involved in the Korean War until the US forces ignored an explicit warnings not to advance too close to the Chinese boarder.
Either you don't know much about your history, in which case I would suggest you familiarise yourself with the relevant details before coming up with conclusions, or that is a case of an attempt to downplay the true nature of Imperialist Japan's war crimes on par with what the revisionists are trying to do with Japanese history books.
Oh please spare us the sanctimonious propaganda about how 'democracies' are inherent better. Just look back at recent history and you can see that your precious democracies are responsible for more than its fair share of wars of aggression since WWII.
Even WWII in Europe could arguably be said to have been started by a democracy. Modern pro-democracy writers would nit pick and spin till they go blue, but the cold hard fact remains that Hitler rose to power via the ballot box, and was wildly popular for pretty much the entire war to the point that had regular elections been held, he would have won by a landslide by any voting system.
It is precisely this kind of blind wishful thinking and complacency that allowed special interests to push democracies into waging wars of aggression in the past, and will make it easy for them to do so again if people simply do not learn.
Indeed we should, although something tells me you and I would come to very different conclusions on who has actually been the bully and who the victim.
