Raziel
1d ago
Marty Made is largely a clown (actually thinks chief villain of WW2 was Churchill), although I haven't bothered to do that much of a deep research to understand if it's from some earnest place or he just does it for the sake of grift.
There isn't anything overly hypocritical in US conduct post-WW2, unless you subscribe to some fantasy world where everyone can and is willing to fully commit to idealism. Imperial Japanese era political foundations were dismantled to form a liberal democratic order and country was demilitarized. Yes, you can argue that there was too much of a rehabilitation of certain figures and families who were involved with Imperial Japan, but that was a pragmatic choice to contain the Soviet & China axis. Even if one casts suspicion on the moral intentions of establishing liberal democracy in Japan, feeding Japan fully into the rule-based liberal democratic capitalist market order was beneficial to US. At the time it made perfect sense thus to ally Japan.
Also, dude seems to be critical about invading countries and overthrowing governments when it comes to making a shining example of a country that does not do it (China), but then seems to be awfully warm about Russia. I at least respect left-wingers of the Chomskian vein for trying to build carefully crafted cogent arguments against US-led NATO world order, but god damn these silly right-wing amateurs who peddle in dumbed down versions of it.
What outlets in Western media mischaracterized what happened? What distortions did they make in particular?
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