Comments by "115islands Compass" (@115islandscompass6) on "Why We Study History | Highlights Ep.25" video.

  1. Why do you use the footage of people who are happy to have the "Japanese Surrender" newspaper as a good thing? As MacArthur said, Japan fought for security. In other words, the war between Japan and the United States was a war of aggression by the United States on Japan. If it is denied, it means that this channel teaches forged history.
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  2.  @nozrep  Haha I heard that the at Pearl Harbor National Memorial has been announcing that "Japan's attack was due to the Allied blockade." What do you think about it?
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  3.  @nozrep  And I think it was only British Malaya that the Japanese army started fighting the ally, British, several hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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  4.  @nozrep  First, the Russo-Japanese War, the annexation of the Korean empire, the support of Manchuria, and the battle with the Chiang Kai-shek & CCP alliance were all to prevent the invasion of Russia / Soviet Union / Communist forces into Japan. Entry into Indochina was done with the permission of France. The purpose was to stop the supply from the West to Chiang Kai-shek & CCP Union. And the ultimate goal of this was to end the war in China. As MacArthur said in his Senate speech shortly after his return, the Japanese war was for security. Japan did not want the aggression to expand. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan conducted diplomatic negotiations with the United States to lift the embargo. Japan was going to accept almost completely at the request of the United States, including the gradual withdrawal from China other than Manchuria. But the United States further demanded the immediate withdrawal of Japanese troops from the continent without guarantee that the embargo was lifted. This is the same as giving Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, which have made large investments, to Chiang Kai-shek & the Communist Party forces or the Soviet Union or the both. And that means that the lives and property of the Chinese, Manchus, Koreans, and Japanese people who were there will be deprived. If the Soviet Union acquires the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago is also in danger of aggression. The United States knew that Japan would never accept it and demanded it. Why do you think the United States made even more unacceptable demands without a guarantee to lift the embargo when Japan said it would gradually withdraw from China? Dexter Hull handed over Hull Note with the above contents to Japan and ended diplomatic negotiations. This note was a kind of declaration of war. Therefore, this Hull Note should have been scrutinized by Congress. But the Roosevelt administration did not. What do you think about it? Didn't you see in Afghanistan just a short time ago what the "immediate withdrawal of troops" would bring?
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