Yeah, we would never decide to conquer a land for its beauty and resources. Except, you know, all of continental the U.S. from the First Nations, Texas and Alta California from the Mexicans, Hawaii from the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the Philippines from Spain. And there was that whole incident with the Black Ships that forcibly opened Tokyo to trade, and more or less caused the Meiji Restoration. My nationalism only goes so far.
Using the U.S. as the aggressor in the Second World War is still really bad though, even in an alternate universe. Japan is a country where their PMs still honor their war criminal soldiers, and they can't seem to apologize for taking Korean sex slaves. The AU just perpetuates the culture of ignorance. Americans, for all their flaws, are much better at recognizing the colossal fuck-ups in their past.
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Using the U.S. as the aggressor in the Second World War is still really bad though, even in an alternate universe. Japan is a country where their PMs still honor their war criminal soldiers, and they can't seem to apologize for taking Korean sex slaves. The AU just perpetuates the culture of ignorance. Americans, for all their flaws, are much better at recognizing the colossal fuck-ups in their past.
ordnance11 Wrote:Nations come and nations go. My hope is that one thousand years from nowDon't worry, the Rangers will remember us.
(providing there is still an advanced civilization around), the history
books will point to the United States of America as one of the great
nations that this planet created.
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