Some might say, “Hindsight is 20/20! This is unfair analysis!”

But that’s untrue. Many people around the world saw and warned about World War II brewing. Many smart people saw this largely as a continuation of World War I — and were saying so many years before World War II truly began.

As for Japan, endless articles describe Japan as desperate to negotiate with United States and allies. The article attached does not describe that desperation. It does show the clarity — at that time — of the situation.

There is a strong idea in America that in days gone-by, the press was honest and accurate and our government was spotless. But just go back and spend a few weeks going through articles from a century or two before. Nothing new under the sun.

This article directly indicates the hopeless situation Japan found itself in. Japan was trapped. Essentially imprisoned, surrounded by hungry expansionists in an extremely predatory political-ecosystem. If Japan did not match the hungry expansionist with its own economy and military advantages, Japan would be divided and conquered.

Prison rules were in effect. You gotta join a side. And the side you wanted to be on —led by United States — wanted your cell and cells. You were forced to join the Nazis and the Fascists against the Communists and Team America.

Japan, forced to join forces with Nazis and Fascists to defend against Communists and Americans. Nobody can make up this stuff. It just is what it is.

And to cover up Roosevelt’s sins, children like me were taught since birth — wrongly — that Japan just woke up one day and decided to take over the world.

Now, if I were about 14 years-old, I might believe that Japan would try to take over the world. Because at 14, I had not yet studied enough or travelled the world.

But by the time I was about 20, I would realize the very idea was preposterous on its face, and at age, I still had not travelled the world, but I am quite sure the numbers would not have made sense.

How is an introverted and resource-poor country with 70 million people — practically none speak anything but Japanese - expected to seize and hold a single barnyard in America? Does not make sense.

The narrative was that Japan was trying to dominate Asia and the world, but this narrative ignored the fact that many countries, such as United States, Australia, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, France — and more — were crawling all over Asia and making no attempt to hide that the only non-dominated country left was Japan.

Some will add Thailand to this list, and in the interest of not getting sidetracked, I can accept for purpose of focus that Siam and Japan were the only two significant countries that were not imperial vassals.

Japan KNEW it was on the menu.

Especially so after all the Japanese efforts on our collective side in World War I, and then Japan getting cut out of the spoils for the explicit reason they were considered Asian pagans and not worthy to sit at the table.

Chinese really played the pagan angle hard. Chinese would wave Bibles and say Japanese were savages, and tons of Christians took the bait. Chinese can be tricky like that. And Americans can be big suckers. Look what’s happening now. China hypnotized half the US Government. Chinese spies with Top Secret clearances are a dime a dozen. They hit us with a virus, and Americans blame themselves as much as they blame China, while the military argues about which shoes to wear to the trans-prom. Top General in America —Mark Milley — apparently planned a coup. And he’s still in uniform. Cannot make up this stuff.

Information warfare is essential study.

We are under intense information attack in 2021.

Just as were our Grandparents back before World War II. Our grandparents were led into catastrophe. We destroyed a natural ally, Japan, and left Soviet Union intact, and Communist China growing by the second.

When I was in Afghanistan, Balooch people would complain about this American trait. We support people who are trying to kill us, and ignore or mistreat people who are on our side, or could easily have been on our side.

Americans do this.

During the war with Comanches, some of the Comanche bands who stopped fighting complained of this same trait. We rewarded Comanches for fighting us, and punished Comanches who came on side.

The jungle we are currently in was not planted during the lifetime of anyone reading this. We are being led into a civil war — a war which only evil like CCP stands to win. We are rewarding our enemies and punishing our friends.

Likewise with US citizens. US citizens who try to follow the law are treated as punk slaves. People who burn down cities are heroes. This will explode.