I think both Japan and Germany stand as shining examples that no nations are irredeemable, that war need not be about conquest, and that the losers of the wars need not to be destroyed utterly, but given the means and guidance to raise themselves up again in the family of nations and then be left alone to stand on their own, once again the equal to the United States, France, China, Russia, the United Kingdom or any other country on earth.
And they both stand now as first-rate citizens, needing to apologize to no one, contributing to the welfare of all nations, seeking to subjugate none, both respecting and being respected without taint from their past.
You know, Germany and Japan won World War II in a much more profound way than if they had been able to obtain military victory. Both are a hundred times greater a nation than they would have been had their rogue leaders been able to establish their twisted will.
It could well have been Britain, or France, or the United States who came under the domination of a slavering totalitarian despot instead of Germany. Hitlerism had very little to do with Germany, except that Germany was a suitable host for the disease.
I believe the United States might have been a good host as well, but Germany with her hyperinflation, past defeat in WWI, Versailles reparations, rampant socialist and communist elements and anti-Jewish regions had the same effect on Nazism as gasoline on a fire. I believe other countries could have burned as well.
I wonder if another country, defeated in war, dedicated to such despicable aims, would have become the great nation either Germany or Japan has. Their people are magnificent!
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