Dear Readers:
This post is sort of a continuation of yesterday’s story, my source is this analytical piece by Nikolai Storozhenko. The main topic is Zelensky’s complete amateurism when it comes to performing on the world stage. Zel may be a world-class standup comedian and piano player, but when it comes to international diplomacy, eeesh…. The headline reads:
At the G-7 Summit Zelensky Offended Japan And Also Threw America Under the Bus
And the sub-headline: “Having compared Artyomovsk with Hiroshima, Zelensky admitted the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.“
Storozhenko: Zelensky employed a rather double-edge rhetorical phrase at the G-7 Summit in Japan. He compared the destruction of Artyomovsk with the results of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. By so doing, without even realizing what he had done, he (1) offended Japan; (2) undermined his main host, the USA; and (3) tried to whitewash the crimes of the UAF.
There are two levels of tactlessness. One level: To mention a rope in the home of a hanged man. At a more advanced level: Expressing your condolences with “I too had a relative who hung himself.”
One might say that Zelensky rose to the second level when he uttered, at the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima: “The photographs of the destroyed Hiroshima absolutely reminds me of Bakhmut and other such cities. There is nothing left alive there, there is no sense of what was a street, what was a building. There is just total destruction, there is nothing there, no people there.”
Observers noted that, despite his crocodile tears over the Hiroshima victims, Zelensky didn’t even bother to attend the ceremony where flowers were laid on a memorial to those people who died in the bombing.
Let us turn to the way in which Zelensky quite skillfully undermined Joe Biden. On the eve of the summit, Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, responding to the question of a reporter, declared that Biden would not apologize for the American atom bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
This has been one of those historical “guilt” issues that recur in international politics. Towards the end of 2022, Japanese politician Muneo Suzuki when he heard about the G-7 summit in Hiroshima, and heard that Biden was to attend, he called upon the latter, not so much to apologize, as to declare that the use of the A-bomb had been a mistake. In reality, nobody expected this to actually happen. Harry Truman’s grandson declared, in 2015, that the U.S. would never apologize for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima/Nagasaki. And nobody expects them to ever do, least of all the Japanese.
But given that this is such a sore spot in American-Japanese relations, it was doubly tactless of Zelensky to shoot off his mouth and opine about it. [yalensis: But that’s Zelensky for you! As the Supreme Leader of the Planet, this Great Philosopher has an opinion about everything!] By doing so, and by comparing Artyomovsk with Hiroshima, he only drew more attention to Biden’s refusal to apologize.
There is another nuance: Nobody believes that Biden personally had anything to do with the bombing of Hiroshima. And yet he has everything to do with the destruction of Artyomovsk. This catastrophe happened under his watch! And not just Artyomovsk, but all of those Donbass cities that became front-line targets of Ukrainian/American weapons. The military aid provided by the U.S. to Ukraine only serves to prolong the agony of the Donbass people and towns. This is where the Americans will also need to issue an official apology, at some point in the future.
Pan Zelensky, Look In The Mirror!
Since the start of the Special Military Operation, the Ukrainian army have taken to using multi-storey apartment buildings as fortifications and machine-gun nests.
They did this against the will of the residents of those buildings. The residents would suddenly get a knock on the door in the middle of the night: They had an hour to collect their things and clear out. If they refused, they would be shot. This was the practice in Mariupol as well, there are tons of eyewitness accounts that this was the standard practice of the UAF.
And the so-called “defense” of Artyomovsk was done exactly the same way as Mariupol.
And here is one more nail in the coffin: In one of his recent interviews with Ukrainian television, Ukraine’s Chief Spy, Kirill Budanov admitted that the Ukrainian government knew about the planned Russian attack two weeks in advance, in February of 2022. And they decided to keep that knowledge a secret, instead of warning the population. They could have warned the people and given them time to evacuate the front-line [Donbass] cities. They could have organized humanitarian corridors. They could have chosen to do battle out in the open fields, against the Russian army, while leaving the cities intact. But in the end they decided it would be much more convenient for them to leave the population in place, as literal human shields, and to fight the war in the urban environment. And they stuck to this same logic throughout the course of the conflict, hiding their army behind human shields and in civilian buildings.
In other words, Artyomovsk was nothing like Hiroshima. Thus, Zelensky’s crocodile tears are nothing but a pathetic attempt to cover-up the crimes of the West, of the UAF, and of himself.
Awful Avalanche 
Zelenski’s nonsense about Hiroshima proves his cultural training and lack of ideas to at least not dirty his masters even more.
By the way, today the Iranians reported that it was the Germans who delivered the gases to Saddam to be used against his country. And so we are learning why Nazism is so alive.
With the crimes against humanity committed by the German Nazis, they should not be allowed to have more weapons than plastic table knives and the West lets them produce the same gases as when Hitler.
The Japanese are not even offended, there is not even a memory of the proud samurai people.
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Yes. Today’s Japan has absolutely nothing in common with pre 1945 Japan. It is an artificial culture of consumerism and degeneracy.
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1. A nonsensical attack on a modern society I’m guessing you know little to nothing about. And 2. there was nothing noble about either Imperial Japan nor the Samurai bakufu that preceded it.
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My cousin is a professional Japanese translator and lives half the time in Japan, but believe whatever makes you happy.
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What a pathetic attempt to claim expertise by proxy.
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Well, it depends on whether his cousin teaches him stuff about Japan. I mean, family members talk and share information. For example, I happen to know a lot about ballet, because my sister is a dancer.
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What’s in modern Japan qualifies as “degeneracy”? The only thing I can think of are Uyoku fascists hanging out at the Yasukuni Shrine pining for the good old days.
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I just saw this Telegram time lapse off Artëmovsk:
https://t.me/wartimedia/39872
Anyone who knows anything of the history of WWII is or should be aware that Japan was desperate to surrender in early 1945. The Japanese cabinet sworn in in March 1945 had its primary goal as ending the war on any terms at all as long as the Emperor’s position was untouched and Hirohito not prosecuted. The Americans rejected these terms, insisting on “unconditional” surrender; yet after the nuclear bombings accepted those exact same terms, under which Hirohito was never deposed or prosecuted.
The only thing that really mattered? Like the fire bombing of Dresden, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a warning to Stalin. They were the first shots of the Cold War.
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True. And Stalin got the message: “We need our own A-bomb! Pronto!”
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Stalin was aware of the Western ties with the Nazis in Switzerland and was also aware of the attempt by the failed military man, Winston Churchill, who had become a terrorist politician who wanted to use the atomic bomb against the USSR.
And even though in Stalin’s time there was still some sanity in the West, today’s Western politicians would devastate the world with atomic bombs if it weren’t for fear of the bombs that others have.
In those times, the West at least respected religion, today it is not even respected.
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Post-war Soviets had very good spies, and they managed to steal the A-bomb!
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I think their spy in the Manhattan project fed them enough information to keep them on the right track rather than to have to experiment too much to find their own way through the process. This saved time and money. That advance knowledge on progress of development of the bomb in it self was critical in terms of making relevant and timely decisions, including geo-political. Side note: Richard Feynman was involved in this and he played a trick on other staff by opening their office safes. It occurred to him that people would not bother to change default factory lock combination, and that was the case, even for military guy in charge!
Another thing, soon after end of WW2, USA proceeded to run spy flights over USSR and in fact lost dozens of long range aircraft doing so. In early days they were converted bombers. There were also balloon flights with photographic equipment. They progressed to using U2 aircraft until one got shot down and then they switched to satellites. I personally doubt that USSR lost ANY aircraft in some attempt to spy on USA as I doubt that they even tried to. So, I am not of opinion that USSR was responsible for cold war. It is the UK and USA that was doing everything short of a hot war to make peaceful coexistence impossible.
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I like your take, yalensis. America never even mentions the “contribution” of all the British scientists to the Manhattan Project. Or that Blighty gifted America with radar and the jet engine during the war (and the USSR got Rolls Royce jet engines from the Atlee Labour government post war– the Mig 15 and 17 had RR knockoff engines not original Soviet designa in any way whatsoever).
After all, according to folk lore in the land of the free and brave whatever wirh bombs bursting in air, America won both WW1 (with a mere 110 days of actual participation at the front because cowboys are rilly tough dudes) and WW2 just becuz they said so. Colonel MacGregor is the only American who points out the real truths I already knew amid the incessant rah rah of “Ain’t America The Wonderfullest?” and the arsenal of democracy routine.
The Brits were severely compromised by communists, and Klaus Fuchs, a by then Brit scientist who had escaped from Germany pre-war, was sent off to work on the bomb in the States. Revealed all to the Soviets. Stalin must have laughed his arse off when Truman tried to hint at the bomb at their last face-to-face war meeting. The moustachioed killer already knew what was going on. Sorry, not a fan of Stalin in any way shape or form.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs
Fuchs’ trial was a super big deal when I was a kid in Blighty.
The Japanese I don’t know what to make of them to this day. Found them pretty big-headed superior-attiyude and top-down in business. They were undoubtedly the worst of savages in their 1930s China invasion, really beyond the pale. And later treated prisoners of war in ridiculously brutal fashion. Their “religion” or anyway policy inculcated into the average Japanese soldier was that if an opponent surrendered, they had no honour whatsoever, and could be treated worse than shit. Convenient. My mother said that when an actual J POW survivor came back to work, he was a ruined man. Mum said they gave him a seat in the corner and he got to lick all the stamps for outgoing mail, it was all he was up to. Still in shock.
So, I don’t think the Allies or their publics worried overmuch about A-bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. LeMay of the USAF, a worse racist sadist even than Bomber Harris of the RAF, had already pulled off firebombings of Tokyo and other cities before the A-bomb drops, and due to lightweight construction, the places were a tinderbox. More deaths from that than the A-bombs. People need to read some history.
War is hell, and the Japanese got what they deserved was the way it was thought of when I was a kid in the ’50s. The real Western philosophical hand-wringing started later. I wouldn’t buy Japanese products myself until my first car from there in 1990. I too well remembered the horrible tales of how they had so badly behaved in China and WW2, like utter barbarians. Anyway, they finally got the message and MacArthur, as his personal monumental conceit and self-esteem demanded, ruled Japan like an Emperor. Just like the way he lorded it over the Philipines prior to America’s entry into WW2, late as usual.
Man is a dangerous and nasty animal all around, regardless of race or nationality. And sociopaths and psychopaths, liars all, tend to become our leaders by conning, scamming and lying their way to the top. They start the wars for themselves and friends ends, and it is they who determine the nastiness of how it’s waged. The man on the street has zero input at strategic level.
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Good comment, Beluga, and thanks for mentioning the British scientists as well, their role in transitioning atomic technology to the Reds. I like MrDomingo’s point also, that the Soviet spies didn’t so much steal everything outright, as keep the Soviets honest in their own research; and saved them a heck of a lot of time.
I can’t claim to be an expert on the various atomic spying going on, but back in 2021 I did post this 6-part series on the role of the Rosenbergs and their little cell. In case anybody is interested in this theme.
Just for the record, I consider the Rosenbergs and Fuchs and the like, to be heroes, not villains; but that’s just me. If it weren’t for people like them, then I think Truman would have nuked the USSR for sure and killed a million Russians.
Re. Stalin, most of my older readers know that I am not a fan either. In fact, quite the opposite. Stalin murdered one of my ancestors just for hahas. (The man had absolutely no power at the time, was just trying to live out the rest of his life as an ordinary person.)
And I still hold a grudge about Tukhachevsky and Uborevich as well. I have written extensive posts on these topics in the past.
However, being a Marxist myself and a follower of the Hegelian dialectic, I am able to dialectically separate out “bad Stalin” from “good Stalin”.
Bad Stalin was the guy who killed off Lenin’s Central Committee and the Soviet Union’s best generals, simply because he was a bastard, and because he feared for his own job. Office Politics on Steroids, is what I always called it.
Good Stalin was the guy who eventually won the war (after screwing things up initially, but then redeemed himself) and stole the A-bomb, thus performing his job duties and keeping his country safer.
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I’m sorry, but I’m going to push back hard on this.
This is just 100% bullshit. Japan had been trying for years to contrive to get a *negotiated, conditional* surrender where it would be allowed to keep a number of things. One was the institution of the Emperor, but they also wanted to hold on to as much of their conquered territory as possible.
There were a bunch of factions and factors involved, but in the name of not just making a giant wall of text, the Japanese government was divided between a peace party that wanted to just give up immediately, and a war party, that was dominant, and that wanted to stage a final battle (kessen) on the beaches of the home islands that they knew they would lose, but would so bleed the Americans dry that the US would agree to accept conditional terms of surrender via Moscow mediation. The US invasion plan, Operation Downfall (which contrary to revisionist myth was very much in the planning and was projected to suffer massive casualties) is well known. But less well known is that Japan had its own defense plan, Operation Ketsu-go, which involved scraping together every unit that could be found, up to and including giving civilians sharp farming tools and telling them to fight or they’d be raped and murdered anyway by the savage gaijin.
Only it turned out Moscow had just been leading the Japanese on while preparing to steamroll through Machuria. Once that and the two bombs happened it was clear there was no chance at repeating Iwo Jima or Okinawa on a larger scale.
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Thanks, Ben, for your historical expertise. Despite differences in opinions, most of the commenters seem to be agreeing that the role of the USSR was a decisive one in urging the Japanese to surrender.
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The decisive factors were a combination of it being clear that the last avenue the Japanese thought they could manipulate into letting them keep some of their empire turned out to be a dud, and that the whole ‘bleed them dry’ strategy wouldn’t work. There was also some hope that they could split the allies in China and get the Soviets to fight the Nationalists, which also turned out to be a pipedream.
It’s a complete counter-factual about whether the Soviet invasion alone would have been enough. Even if would have been sufficient, that wasn’t known at the time. It would have been a dereliction of duty on the part of US leadership to not employ the bombs at the earliest opportunity, particularly because, contrary to revisionism, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki (actually Kokura; Nagasaki was a backup target after the primary target was obscured by either cloud or defensive smoke) were valid military targets that would have needed to be hit ahead of the planned invasion anyway (Hiroshima especially was a major rail hub, military port, and the headquarters of the entire Southern Kyushu army group, which was seventeen divisions and counting).
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Two quite relevant recent articles on that era of atomic espionage:
Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes.
By Ron Ridenour
One Brother Gave the Soviets the A-Bomb. The Other Got a Medal.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ted-hall-espionage-fbi/
By Dave Lindorff
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yalensis: Apologies! I meant to make the above a totally separate comment, rather than a reply.
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That’s okay!
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Not true. Japan started making surrender overtures from Jan 1945.
That there were multiple opinions in Japan makes no difference to the fact that the Japanese government had realised by early 1945, that is, even before the nazis, that the war was lost.
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Strawman. I’ve already addressed this. No one in the Japanese military and government was under any illusion that they could win. The point was that they wanted to get a conditional surrender that would allow them to keep at least some of their Imperial holdings. The plan to achieve this was to keep fighting and conduct a super-Okinawa to convince the US to allow lesser terms than total capitulation.
None of the Allies were willing to allow this kind of compromise. Nor should they have been; the Empire of Japan had been a belligerent plague on the Far East for 60 years and deserved to die.
The option to surrender, truly surrender, was always available. Japan was not some poor victim screaming “I give, I give!” but no one would listen to it.
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For Kiev living Ukrainian citizens have less propaganda value than dead Ukrainian citizens.
It is also noteworthy that in this war the phrase “collateral damage” has not made an appearance. This was the justification and moral solvent used by the US when it killed masses of civilians in its Middle Eastern wars to get at suspected “terrorists”. In the virtuous West the destruction of Fallujah was just “collateral damage”, thus allowed, but the destruction of Mariupol by the Russians to eradicate Azov is a war crime.
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Yes, the main reasons the US dropped two A-bombs on Japan were because it wanted to test them on a real, live target(!) and to threaten the USSR and warn it not to invade/enter Japan or western Europe. The majority of Japanese historians affirm that, and they also point out that the Imperial Council began to seriously debate about surrender on August 8, 1945 . This was the day before the Nagasaki blast. And it was the day the USSR had earlier declared war on Japan. Most Japanese historians point out that the fear of being taken prisoner by the USSR, which would probably have executed the emperor and deconstructed Japan’s capitalist economic system, was the decisive factor causing the Council to begin to suddenly begin to plan for the surrender, which was declared on August 15. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far from Japan’s big cities, and the immediate deaths from each of he A-bombs (radiation sickness wasn’t well known then) were about the same as the death tolls from each of the US’s massive fire bombings of Tokyo and other cities, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs had little immediate impact on the public or on military leaders, so they were not the main factor in Japan’s decision to surrender. The main reason for the surrender was the sudden shocking war declaration by the USSR. Japan’s leaders wanted to protect Japanese capitalism and to be taken into custody by the US, whom they saw as more lenient regarding the emperor, so they quickly surrendered before the Red Army could reach Hokkaido.
Regarding Hiroshima as the site for G7, yes, it is a double-image: a not so subtle threat to Russia and China and, for domestic consumption, a symbol of peace (“We love peace, and sanctions will bring peace”). The Japanese PM studied in the US when he was young, and he resembles Baerbock and Von der Lugen in that he has been brainwashed and seems to believe — especially because he was born in Hiroshima and unconsciously fears the US? — that the US still remains the unipolar power and will remain so in the future. Therefore he tried extra hard to please the US and personally invited Zelensky to attend. (In Japan, the war in Ukraine isn’t as dominant an issue in the MSM as it is in the “west,” and Zelensky isn’t as famous.) Also, Japan, like Germany and South Korea, is an occupied country, and the Japanese government fears the consequences if it doesn’t support more US-desired sanctions on Russia and opposition to China. In the 1970s the US took many legal steps to block Japanese exports to the US, especially automobiles, as the US sought to block and suppress the rival Japanese economy, just the way it now tries to suppress the rival economies of Russia, Germany, and China. Every Japanese PM tries to avoid confronting the US and thereby avoid returning to the bad old ’70s. Meanwhile, the Japanese far right wants to break free from the US and rearm even more than at present.
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In reality, the Japanese, like the German Nazis, sought impunity, and apart from some war criminals were executed, most were relocated to the West under false names. The most notable case was Wener Von Braun who subjected Britain to bombing raids that killed tens of thousands of Englishmen and was graciously pardoned in exchange for his technology of death.
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The medical experimenters of Japan’s Unit 731, who were many times worse than the nazi concentration camp doctors, were all given immunity in return for their medical experiment data; not just that, many including the unit 731 boss Shiro Ishii got jobs at American universities after the war.
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Thanks, Liborio and Raghead. You both underscore the fact that the Americans, with their wicked A-bomb, punished the wrong people. Nobody denies that the Japanese government and army were monsters; it’s just that ordinary civilians shouldn’t have to pay the price. Human law says that civilians are not necessarily responsible for the crimes of their government. Whether or not they voted for that government, or obeyed it, or even liked it, that’s irrelevant.
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Hiroshima had no military installations to speak of; Nagasaki was the centre of Japanese Christianity. I read, but I don’t know if it’s true, that the main cathedral was incinerated, but a notorious bordello allegedly across the street was untouched.
As far as Japanese military being monsters, the officers were vile scum, but plenty of the ordinary soldiers were decent. WWII POW LL Baynes writes in The Other Side Of Tenko that plenty of the Japanese ordinary troops were decent men and that they were as terrified of their officers, and even more of the Kempei Tai military police, as the POWs were.
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Both lies. Hiroshima was a rail marshaling yard, military port, and headquarters for a main Japanese army command. Nagasaki (a backup target, by the way, the intended target was Kokura, home of a major army arsenal) was another major port and hub for Mitsubishi factories.
“I read, but I don’t know if it’s true…”
Then why are you commenting on subjects you haven’t bothered to learn about? After claiming expertise by proxy earlier theough a cousin. It is actually true, because the bomb drifted a mile from the intended drop point before detonating, and blew up more or less directly over the church. There was no magically untouched bordello across the street. That isn’t how nuclear bombs work. Even if it were true, it wouldn’t have been by design.
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But if these cities were legitimate targets, then why did they feel they had to use nukes? As opposed to conventional bombs.
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In fact the majority of Japanese historians do not affirm any such thing. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is the biggest proponent of this thesis, and he has significant critics both in and outside of Japanese academia.
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Ben: This is the second time in this thread that I’ve seen you strenuously object to something without identifying the particulars of what precisely you disagree with.
Your responses to both FNT and Dou Gen do not obviously refute anything written by either, not that I can see:
This is just 100% bullshit.
WHAT is 100% bullshit?? There you seem to be comparing apples and oranges, rather than disputing FNT’s statements in any meaningful way.
In fact the majority of Japanese historians do not affirm any such thing.
WHAT such thing?? Dou Gen has relayed two full paragraphs of information. Are you claiming to refute those in their entirety? And by what means do you substantiate your own claims?
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No, he spends a lot of words saying not much of anything.
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Whereas you spew a paucity of words, likewise “saying not much of anything”??
You’ve hardly addressed my questions. Limited attention span?
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Thank you, Dou Gen, that is an excellent comment, and I learned a lot from reading it.
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Japan and war engenders a lot of controversy, and the otherness with which the Japanese are regarded in the western consciousness has contributed to a stereotype of cruelty that is distinctly Japanese.
The U.S.A. exhibits cruelty too, and in far greater proportions. Beside wars, think “collateral damage”.
But the U.S.A. has the means to transform its cruelty into forms of edification and entertainment. It also employs a craftiness that is termed “plausible deniability”.
Take, for example, the July, 2022 assassination of twice serving ex Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe. This has all the hallmarks of U.S. involvement, when one considers Abe’s slow political transformation towards a more independent form of nationalism not unlike that of Turkiye’s Erdogan. Not to mention his camaraderie with President Trump. But there is nary a whiff of U.S. machinations. One can only speculate how things may have been different. Perhaps we may not be peering over the abyss, as we are today.
As for apologies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan
List of apologies by U.S.A.
* Shielding of Klaus Barbie
*Internment of Japanese citizens, W.W.11
*Overthrow of Kingdom of Hawaii
*The Tuskegee experiments
*Apology for slavery and Jim Crow laws
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Thanks, Australian Lady. That is a very perceptive remark about Western notions of “cruelty” in the context of the “otherness” of Asian cultures. Many stereotypes come to mind. Americans still shudder when talking about “Chinese water torture”, as if forgetting about Gitmo waterboarding; unless they believe the latter is a form of aquatic recreation, like surfing.
I have noticed that Anglo-Saxons in general still shudder at “oriental” barbarism, as if it is of a higher caliber than Anglo-Saxon barbarism. In fact, this is one of the sources of Russophobia as well: You will still hear Westies claim that Russians are meaner and crueler because they learned those techniques from the *gasp!* Mongols!
I mean, nobody can dispute that the Japanese soldiers behaved like beasts in Manchuria and China. But I reckon I will go on repeating my “What about…” when it comes to American and Westie in general atrocities throughout history…. For example, the practice of breaking people on a wheel. That has to be right up there.
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You’re making it sound as if he wanted to kill his own people… really, it’s getting pathetic. Zelensky didn’t want to frighten the Ukrainian people. This is why he didn’t warn them beforehand. I don’t know how many of his actual interviews you’ve watched, and how much of what you’ve written here is but another copy paste of the lies his enemies make up about him to discredit him. Nobody believed Putin would attack Ukraine, as he disguised his armies near the Ukraine border as a “joint military exercise with Belarus”. It was credible. A country is allowed to do that. Also, it was the USA guys who constantly spoke of war, always foreshadowing different dates for when Putin was supposed to invade Ukraine. Neither dates anything happened, hence nobody took warnings seriously anymore. At least partly. Everyone knew there’s trouble between Russia and Ukraine but European leaders were trying to keep it under control. Just ask Emanuel Macron, how much he spent talking to Putin and trying to keep the peace. But maybe there’s another thing to it. Secretly, the Ukrainian army was ready for combat. From the moment Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukrainian soldiers started being trained in the West. That’s just one thing. Else, why would Putin fail to take Ukraine in 3 days, as he promised he would when he “began a special military operation that will last 3 days”? Because Ukraine was, in fact ready. As for Bakhmut comparison with Hiroshima, it’s not about the weapons used. It’s about the impact on the population. No life left – because everyone either died, was taken prisoner or evacuated. Russian military used phosphorus munition on the Ukraine troops defending Bakhmut, I suggest you read about what that damn thing does to a person. Also, looking for the devil where he isn’t… Where did Zelensky ever asked USA to apologize? No. He only ever asked the international community for help. He thanked everyone when they showed up with that help. Here we are, anonymous people who probably have never done anything useful in their lives, picking apart a guy who speaks about what a demented man is doing to his country and his people and what that means to him, to them all. Victim blaming at its finest. Well done, hope you’re proud of yourself. Easy to spread orc propaganda online, from the comfort of your own home, when it’s not your country, your people, or your friends involved. “A wise man once said nothing”. And lots of fools around on planet Earth, sadly.
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