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OC375

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7. It's been fashionable for some time to insist Japan was provoked

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Thu Apr 2, 2026, 03:43 PM

Apr 2

I'm not sure drawing comparisons with Japan and the run up to the Pacific Theater does much but murk things up, and open doors to distraction. But, I do wholeheartedly agree, there will be a reckoning for all this insanity. I'm thinking this time around, no one gets to sit out the crap storm.

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We are basically Japan 1941 [View all] edhopper Apr 2 OP

10 years of waiting for reckoning. bucolic_frolic Apr 2 #1

Not for Trump edhopper Apr 2 #2

Ugh. This is not going to be cheap. /nt bucolic_frolic Apr 2 #3

Have not wanted to contemplate "Evil Empire," status. cachukis Apr 2 #4

We are edhopper Apr 2 #5

Not a mirror I image I want to accept, but as an cachukis Apr 2 #9

30's Germany. usonian Apr 2 #6

It's been fashionable for some time to insist Japan was provoked OC375 Apr 2 #7

I am telling ANYONE who will listen....this is a GLOBAL EMERGENCY Moostache Apr 2 #8