>>We cut off their oil, so they attacked us.Had we left them alone, they would have civilized China/Asia for us. Talk about stupid.
We cut off their oil because they were using our oil to invade conquer and rape destroy and massacre millions of Chinese citizens - among others. There was nothing civilized about the Japanese at that time - they were just as bad, if not worse, than the Nazis.
So apparently you were OK with that?
There was nothing civilized about the Japanese at that time - they were just as bad, if not worse, than the Nazis.
Querty is correct, Japan had overtly invaded China behind a fig leaf even smaller than the one Hitler used to justify his invasion of Poland. The Japanese considered China, then in the midst of civil war, weak and ripe for the plucking. Once they invaded, their behavior was as bad or as worse as the German-Soviet war in the Eastern Front.
The Rape of Nanking was both a literal rape of Chinese women and the figurative rape of the city. Japan was not out to civilize barbarians, it was out to seize and exploit another country. Japan killed between 10-20 million Chinese either directly or through war induced famine.
The Chinese civil war by contrast only killed about 6-10 million. The only greater catastrophe for China than the Japanese invasion was the "Great Leap Forward" where Chairman Mao managed to kill 18-45 million people through sheer economic incompetence.
I think they’re being sarcastic.