BTW, every single one of the people claiming that "What if China invades Japan?" is a stupid unrealistic hypothetical is simply ignorant and uninformed, because there is a chance China might invade some Japanese islands that the U.S. has explicitly pledged to help defend.https://twitter.com/observingjapan/status/1469785188225929218 …
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I agree we'd miss a lot by putting it aside, but I think we'd miss a lot by centering it when considering East Asia today. I appreciate works like Amb Ted Osius' new book on the history of US reconciliation with Vietnam that seek to connect past & present in a truly cohesive way.
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Also, Jeet kind of glosses over the inconvenient little fact that Japan and Korea both really really really *want* the U.S. to help them defend themselves. Why does his own tendentious reading of history outweigh those countries' actual desires?
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War without mercy began at Mukden in 1931. If you’re combing the past for examples of American brutality, maybe leave that one out.
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Jeet, do you think Japan and Korea would be better off today if U.S. "empire" hadn't intervened there in that era? Honest question.
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Vietnam and Cambodia would be better off
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A war without mercy that ended a genocide in China! Never forget that Japan wasn’t and isn’t a colony. It was very much a colonizer
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Wait you think we should not have fought Japan in WWII, or the North in Korea?
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You should also use your training as a historian to look into Imperial Japan’s crimes in China and Korea.
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