chronoboy1985

chronoboy1985 t1_iy1zzbi wrote

Reply to comment by SolomonBlack in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

They would’ve had to constantly bomb every naval construction yard, dry dock and plane factory in the country to keep them from spitting out planes and ships, which would’ve been suicidal given the insane speed the US was pumping out war planes alone.

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chronoboy1985 t1_iy1zjq1 wrote

Reply to comment by TotallyInOverMyHead in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

It wouldn’t have worked no matter what they did unless they could cripple American industrial capacity, which would’ve required a very misguided invasion attempt. Their entire rationale was gambling that Americans wouldn’t have the stomach for a long war and would sue for peace once they lost the upper hand. Even had they decimated Hawaii, it would’ve just been a setback. Japan simply spread itself far too thin.

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chronoboy1985 t1_ivde5p1 wrote

Reply to Joseon, the predecessor of modern Korea(s) - Part 6: Queen Myeongseong (aka Queen Min) drives 20 years of opening and reform with her husband King Gojong, until her violent murder by the Japanese [1864-1905] by spinnybingle

I’m morbidly curious why the Japanese military were always so keen to rape and violate their enemy’s women even up to WW2, after nearly a century of modernization. For a country that always prided itself on the honor of its warrior class, they certainly didn’t extend that honor to women. I guess it takes more than a few generations to enlighten a stubbornly medieval society.

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chronoboy1985 t1_isngev3 wrote

Reply to comment by PedoKracker in A dream in Carcosa, me, digital collage, 2022 by AlfredBitchcock_

*Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa.

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.*

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