I recall reading somewhere where a former prime minster of Japan who resigned early explained that Japan have to get permission and evaluation from the US before they can pass any laws or bills. If its true, then their actions can be simply explained by them being a colony/vassal of US. But I'd like to put the blame on their leaders being old boomers who wants to relive the "good ol' times" lol
Am talking about the battle in 1939 called the battle of Khalkin Gol, and the Liberation War of 1945 both battles resulted in Soviet victory. It has been argued that the Soviet invasion of Japan was the reason Japan surrendered to the Americans this despite they were nuked 2x by their eventual conqueror. This scenario should provide us a clearer picture that Japanese fear of Soviet Russia was greater than being under the thumb of America all things considered.
"Maybe Stalin/Mao was right" stage.
I do agree and that the coming age will be determined by whether Russia and China can withstand or even put the USA in its place, should they succeed, this may end up becoming the century of humiliation for the USA and considering that the USA only really gained its super power status from a combination of luck and extreme foul play instead of genuine innovation like the Russians or even the sheer force of will like the Chinese, should the luck of the USA run out, it is likely that all of the long buried hatred that exists In The many nations that the USA has victimised from its creation until the present is going the spew forth and ensure that the rise of the USA from the ashes is going to be literal ‘American dream’ given that really has the USA ever been put into a position where they have to apologise for their past misdeeds. I am pretty sure almost every real Chinese person who knows how much pain the japanese have caused the Chinese people would want the Japanese to get on their hands and knees to beg for forgiveness for what happened in Nanjing unless they want to be given the thousand cut treatment and those in the know would also want the Americans to lose their wings so to speak for getting in China’s way in literally everything while making themselves out to be the victim like they always do
I already talked about WW2, by 1945 Japan was already on the path to defeat. As for Khalkhin Gol, Soviet side had rather sufficient losses as well, so it is not clear-cut overwhelming victory and certainly not a blitz. The part about surrendering is more of a meme that was created to somewhat white-wash the US - Japan was just delusionally seeking the side that would allow them conditional surrender rather than the unconditional full surrender and they were actually hoping that Soviets would allow them that but the US obviously did not want to increase Soviet influence in the East Asia, hence nuked Japan and forced them to tap out unconditionally. So yes, Americans just nuked them because they did not want them to negotiate with Soviets, classic Murica.
Well, actually I disagree a bit - there was a lot of luck and great geographical position of the US that led to them becoming the ultimate superpower, sure, but you forget the part about vast resources, huge human capital (it is by far the largest Western country), and you cannot really disregard the American science & innovation, especially in the 20th century. A lot of the USSR tech base was built on American\European tech, so when Russians accuse Chinese of being copycats one can only laught at hypocrisy (same with Americans btw, as their tech expertise was built in the similar way as China is doing today).
