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You European Nations seem to forget we saved your arses in WWII, and helped you guys with food, and troop reinforcements. All the while creating this and fighting Japan.
You directly forced Japan into the conquering and oppression of much of British islands around Oceania with trade embargos and arrived after the British, the Polish, the Swedish, the Finnish, the dominion of Newfoundland, the South Africans, the French, the Yugoslavians, the Russians, the Greeks, the Canadians, the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Chinese, and more already did all the fighting, and this was all the whilst the Eastern front was being roflestomped by the Soviets. Again at the Pacific it was the Soviets who ended the war by showing up with 2,000,000, veterans calling for Japan's surrender or else. Days after Japan declares it will surrender [when failing to negotiate a deal with the soviets that would make them betray its allies] it is nuclear bombed by America. Twice.
America saved Germany from total destruction and subsequently gave most of Asia to communism.
They had a choice; they could stop trying to conquer China, or they could invade everyone else and steal what they needed. The trade embargos were primarily on oil and other goods used to fuel their war machine, and it seems odd to condemn America for being *unwilling* to act as truly amoral arms broker for once in their history. Japan, too stubborn to swallow their pride for fear of losing face, made their choice, cast the dice, and took on the consequences of their actions. If anything, it was America that saved Japan, not Germany, from total destruction, and we're still living with the consequences of American white-washing of Japanese war crimes in the name of anti-Communism. Germany was forced to look their war crimes right in the eyes; prominent Nazis were tried and found guilty, the government was dismantled, the concentration camps revealed to the world, the nation itself fragmented into four. Japan pinned everything on Tojo and a handful of others; Nanking was covered up for years; Unit 731's senior officers were granted amnesty and full pardons in return for turning over all of their biological weapons research conducted on live prisoners; Hirohito was never condemned for personally authorizing use of chemical weaponry or forced labour, and maintained his position with MacArthur exerting every power of the occupation government to protect him and the remainder of the Imperial Family during the trials; the rape of "comfort women" remains an ongoing canker sore between Korea and Japan; government officials still visit Yasukuni Shrine to pray for those who have been condemned as war criminals even in the modern day; and by 1958, all war criminals who hadn't been executed were released on parole.
As for peace, yes, Japan did try to call for peace twice before the Soviets ever intervened. The terms they offered the first time (via Sweden) were entirely unacceptable, and the second time was through the Soviet Union, again in the hopes of a negotiated settlement. The second time was never passed on to the West formally by the USSR; they declined to send it, mobilized, and invaded without warning to seize their piece of the pie. As for the condition of the Soviet Far East Navy, the less said, the better; millions of soldiers do you no good when you are fighting an island nation without a navy to deliver them to their targets, and the Japanese knew it just as well as anyone else. Any attempted Soviet invasion of the Home Islands would have gone even worse for the Soviets than for the Americans; if American threats against Kyushu weren't enough to force a Japanese surrender directly to the Allies, a Soviet threat against Honshu would have done no better. If anything, America, in rejecting the Japanese demands for terms like the maintenance of their Korean colony and preservation of their government that had caused the war in the Pacific with its relentless militarism, followed through on its agreements with its fellow allies, including the USSR, not to seek any peace other than unconditional surrender. I have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to a "deal that would make them betray its allies," either; are you saying Japan wanted the USSR to betray the Allies, or that Japan was offering to betray the Axis?
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