What a load of bullshit. Stop defending the use of a flag that represented the brutal conquest of the entire western pacific.

Definitely. An invasion of mainland japan would have been a bloodbath.

You’re really bringing up WW1? Because the Allied militaries also killed millions and they all still use lots of the same symbolism. Terrible example.

And there’s a huge difference between China “allowing” Japan to fly the flag (as if there’s anything they can do to stop it) and china (or Korea) being happy about it.

Yea, but the USA also wanted germany to be strong Central European ally against the USSR. The iron curtain literally ran straight through the country, so I don’t see how the USA would have had a different outlook in this respect.

Japan still had some hardware, yes. What they didn’t have was trained and experienced military personnel to operate said equipment. Nor did they have any fuel.

Sure, but if the iron cross was on the flag that was draped over half of europe then I can promise you germany wouldn’t still be using it.

But germany had a more clear distinction between the traditional German armed forces (which were still guilty of plenty of war crimes) and the Nazi party and their military organizations (the SS and the SA). Nothing to do with the SS and the SA survived.

In Japan there was no equivalent political movement that swept into power and perverted the national psyche. It was the traditional institutions that led the charge.

I don’t think this is accurate at all. Japan was 100% defeated militarily. They may have been able to kill a lot more people before the end, but there was zero doubt as to the outcome. The remaining Japanese military was a shell of its former self. Any punch they had left was just the sheer number of civilians they were going to enlist in suicidal last-stands. Plus the entire country was being starved out. They were no less defeated than the Nazis, and if japan wasn’t an island it probably would have happened much sooner.

Are you actually too dumb to know that most all of the gullets fired were made for Soviet-era weapons?

Oh how clever, as if anyone doubted what you were implying. Sick back pedal.

Who could possibly doubt this? Sectarian violence was the overwhelming cause of the violence in in the ME, and pretty much always has been. I understand the US disrupting the power balance caused a lot of said sectarian violence, but the fact remains that arabs have always been their own worst enemy.

And almost all of them were killed by their fellow arabs