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>Japan can either choose to go with China, the new great power in its region (which would be the most rational and non-violent choice)

It's not the non-violent choice any more than England trying to appease Nazi Germany was the non-violent choice. Or Ukraine trying to make friends with Russia.

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> It's not the non-violent choice any more than England trying to appease Nazi Germany was the non-violent choice.

Or France calling Nasser as literally the new Hitler when they had become upset about the Suez Canal (real title from the NYTimes: "Nasser Is Hitler Imitator, France's Premier Charges"). It doesn't work that way.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1956/07/31/archives/nasser-is-hitler...

England was no different they too killed millions in their colonies

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