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In reply to the discussion: With her speech today, HRC made herself the pro-slaughter candidate. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The Japanese were far less of a threat to us than Nazi Germany(not that I'd have supported them).
The fight in the Pacific was largely a trade war-Japan's objectives were to control the resources of Asia(which the U.S. also wanted to do, and which was also the main reason we sent troops to the unwinnable conflicts in Vietnam and Korea later-btw, you do realize that the Korean War is still technically going on, don't you?).
We technically "liberated" most of the Asian countries from Japanese rule, and then re-oppressed them by installing dictators aligned with us in the Cold War in most of them(other than Japan, where we sabotaged MacArthur's democratization efforts by rigging their electoral system and turning their economy over to people with an essentially samurai mindset).