the China Understanders have entered the chat
What Imperial Japan did indeed happened 80 years ago, but modern Japan keeps denying it, most of all to themselves, and getting away with still being one of the most xenophobic cultures around. Time hardly matters if they clearly learned nothing.
They learned something tho! That they do not have to change a thing as long as they submit to the US.
It’s always a non-falsifiable claim. It’s always “You can’t prove they AREN’T doing something horrible, in secret, with no evidence. So we should assume they are evil baddies because they hypothetically could be and have just hidden it from everyone.”
A major part of the mass re-education westerners will need to receive after the revolution will be to teach critical thinking skills and to learn to spot and challenge magical thinking.
“What’s done in the past was done in the past, leave it be! Let bygones be bygones!”
Proceeds to salute to Vietnam/Iraq/Lybia/Syria “War Veterans” and thank for their “service”…
