Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Japan Dumps its PM as it allies with US against China" video.

  1. I thought I was the only one to think that the wallpaper wasn't the best, aesthetically speaking. I agree, a new, brighter wallpaper is needed.
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  2. "Always took the wrong side"...‽ Beating Russia in the Russo‐Japanese war was, I would argue, hardly a case of taking the wrong side. Au contraire, it put Japan on a par with the major European powers of the day and earned it immense respect and prestige. Neither was the Meiji restoration that preceded it in so far as it forestalled Japan from becoming a vassal state of the Europeans or the USA in the way that its much bigger neighbour did. Japan's war in the Asia‐Pacific region with the USA and the European colonial powers of Britain, France and the Netherlands was also a legitimate war to protect Japanese economic interests from attack by the West. After all, if you aspire to be a successful modern country you need an empire and colonies to exploit and parasitise. That is how the West became successful and if you're going to emulate the West then, naturally, you should get yourself an empire.
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