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Re:The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa by akomtu on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:04PM (#33856567)
It goes all the way back to WW2. Japan was playing for the wrong team and that team lost. Since then Japan is effectively a vassal of the US.
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Re:The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa by morbidious on Sunday December 04, 2022 @02:42PM (#33856988)
But don't Americans have any shame for wiping out so many innocent lives in the nuclear bombings, yet still have the audacity to make Japan their vassal state?
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Re:The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa by DontchaKnowit on Monday December 05, 2022 @01:38AM (#33862271)
No
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Re:The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa by uni_rule on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:40AM (#33882890)
It was not particularly to empathize with Imperial Japan of all places. Saying they didn't treat people kindly was the understatement of the (20th) century.
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