"Totally not cherrypicked interviews with soldiers warn next generation not to fight the jews."
- The jews
- The jews
@chris I MEAN THEY'RE NOT WRONG
YOU SHOULD KILL FOR THE EMPEROR AND THE COUNTRY, NOT DIE
IT'S THE ENEMY WHO SHOULD DIE
YOU SHOULD TRY TO STAY ALIVE LONGER THAN THE ENEMY WHILE KILLING HIM, THAT'S HOW YOU WIN
YOU'RE GONNA DIE EVENTUALLY BUT YOU GOTTA MAKE SURE YOU TAKE DOWN TWO DUDES MINIMUM BEFORE YOU DO, AND OBVIOUSLY - THE MORE THE BETTER
TO THAT END IT'S RECOMMENDED TO COORDINATE YOUR ACTIONS WITH OTHER DUDES WHO KILL FOR THE SAME EMPEROR AND SAME COUNTRY
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
YOU SHOULD KILL FOR THE EMPEROR AND THE COUNTRY, NOT DIE
IT'S THE ENEMY WHO SHOULD DIE
YOU SHOULD TRY TO STAY ALIVE LONGER THAN THE ENEMY WHILE KILLING HIM, THAT'S HOW YOU WIN
YOU'RE GONNA DIE EVENTUALLY BUT YOU GOTTA MAKE SURE YOU TAKE DOWN TWO DUDES MINIMUM BEFORE YOU DO, AND OBVIOUSLY - THE MORE THE BETTER
TO THAT END IT'S RECOMMENDED TO COORDINATE YOUR ACTIONS WITH OTHER DUDES WHO KILL FOR THE SAME EMPEROR AND SAME COUNTRY
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
The veterans are correct, but I think they are also incorrect.
They are correct in that expansionist imperialism isn't romantic or wonderful and fighting for an expansionist empire isn't beautiful or fun, but they are incorrect in that the coming era will not be a peaceful one and so many of the young men who are up and coming are likely going to have to fight at some point or another, or face losing everything they care about.
The Japanese lucked out in that they lost to the Americans, but they could have just as easily lost to the Soviets, and then their descendants wouldn't have had such nice and easy lives, or their ancestors could have chosen not to modernize and build their initial empire, and they could have ended up much earlier getting attacked by the English or other Europeans, living through the century of humiliation of the Chinese did which in many ways was worse than the imperialist wars that followed. The world isn't simple.
They are correct in that expansionist imperialism isn't romantic or wonderful and fighting for an expansionist empire isn't beautiful or fun, but they are incorrect in that the coming era will not be a peaceful one and so many of the young men who are up and coming are likely going to have to fight at some point or another, or face losing everything they care about.
The Japanese lucked out in that they lost to the Americans, but they could have just as easily lost to the Soviets, and then their descendants wouldn't have had such nice and easy lives, or their ancestors could have chosen not to modernize and build their initial empire, and they could have ended up much earlier getting attacked by the English or other Europeans, living through the century of humiliation of the Chinese did which in many ways was worse than the imperialist wars that followed. The world isn't simple.
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@sj_zero @chris I think they also had bad luck WRT to the other superpower: there were two constants to FDR's foreign policy, make the world burn, but in particular make Japan burn. Compare to (((globohomo's))) centuries long obsession with slaughtering Slavs....
They handled that very badly ... that's something else to think about. Structural failures can doom a polity, for Imperial Japan two in particular: can't make a cabinet without both the Army and Navy, and allowing a culture of acceptable political assignations to develop in the 1920s.
The people running the country in the late 1930s just didn't have much maneuvering room.