>>6352937Sounds ultra based. We may have been enemies, but a worthy rival is more respectable than a feckless ally or a deceitful adversary. 10/10 would go to cold war against japan any day of the week. Better them than Russia or China, whose relevance is a disgrace birthed by our own ineptitude. Foes make the man, after all.
For a brief period of time, Japan was the proud adversary of China and America. We were the proud burgers, fighting off their aspirations of imperial conquest. It was a gloriously complex narrative where good and evil depended entirely on which side you were on. Nuclear weapons may have ended the war, but their development made war far more duplicitous and dishonorable. Human lives no longer matter. Only wielding the levers of social and economic power in order to manipulate one's own citizens to the fullest degree.
What was the artist's name, pray tell? I'd.like to look into his work.
