The USA did not encroach some innocent and harmless Japanese Empire... that's ridiculous IMO, in fact the US and Britain helped create the Japanese Empire in the first place, then the Japanese Empire became arrogant after their stunning victory over the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese war and they then became imperialistic themselves... then when what the US and Britain had helped create in the first place turned on them, they cut their supply lines which provoked them into attacking, which was likely going to happen eventually anyway.
Obviously this does not excuse the atomic bomb on civilians and such things like that, but lets not pretend like the Japanese Empire were innocent as that is totally ridiculous.
Germany also did fight the communists in Europe, but just because you fight communism does not make you good... in fact Fascism and Communism are merely two sides of the same atheist coin and both are bad... then with their racial arrogance their downfall was inevitable... Just as it was inevitable for Britain and France at the beginning of WWII being so arrogant IMO.
I do know my history, at least I try to objectively and away from ideological agenda's which is injected everywhere, of which you should also be careful not to be deceived with one sided narratives IMO.
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The US did not create the Empire, but they did force their ports open at gunpoint, the Japanese are extremely hardworking, industrious and ferocious militant warriors. The US bought off the industrialists in Japan early on to procure "trade", also known as theft of resources. This is the game played worldwide, its being played now in Russia-Ukraine. Putin ousted the oligarchs, so now they try to return through NATO, a proxy of the US. Its the same players throughout history, whenever a nation puts its interest first, they're the " evil" empire or " nαzιs", cept Israel of course. Then thats " good" nationalism.
Yes, your right, the Japs weren't innocent, but they were only looking out for the interests of their empire, a threat to the globalists empire, the US and British at that time. So the Japs had to be taken out, and they needed an excuse to do it. They got it in Pearl Harbor, the japs felt they had no choice at that point, just like Russia's SMO in Ukraine. Same old story.