- The Japanese empire was murdering 200,000 civilians in China every single month of 1945
- I don't think that the pacific theater is really above criticism just because Imperial Japan was worse but at the same time the whole nuclear bombing of Japan discourse kinda reveals how a lot of leftier people find war so repulsive they don't want to think about it in any way beyond platitudes
- it gets so out of hand they endorse the conditional surrender Japan was organizing before the nuclear bombs that involved keeping their empire!
- Which of course, the thing about imperial Japan was that its elite politics were violently chaotic. Even as the nuclear bombs fell, there were generals yapping about surrender was out of the question and that the Japanese nation should merely be smashed like a beautiful gem lmfao
- The night before Japan's surrender a military officer tried to coup to prevent the surrender from going ahead, and he got as far as killing a Lt GenMay 6, 2025 21:32
- Curse on this Country is mandatory reading about the IJA www.amazon.com/Curse-This-C...
- essentially they had all of the militarism of Prussia but with none of Prussian military *obedience*
- by the 1930s Japan was awash in nonstop waves of far-right terrorism that infamously culminated in the 1936 February 26 Incident, only put down because Hirohito threatened to personally take command and fight in the streets to put down to the insurrection in order to shame his waffling generals
