Too bad we f*cking wrecked their economy and status so they had to fight in the first place.

Maybe they shouldn’t have war-crimed the Chinese so much it made literal Nazis blush. Imperial-era Japan is not a victim and implying otherwise is blatantly insulting the vast swaths of Asia that suffered under their thumb.

Implying history doesn't cause history, that wars and subjugation don't create more wars and subjugation, and that any nation is ethically superior is obtuse.

So do I understand you correctly: The Rape of Nanking was fine because of economic anxiety?

No you do not understand correctly. The Rape of Naking, like any other historical event, can be trace back through a line of human failures NONE of which are ethical. Two wrongs do not make a right. The lesser of two evils is still evil. No nation lacks historical moral flaws.

So if I deem the dropping of the atomic bombs as the lesser evil, it's still not good, but less evil than the Rape of Nanking? Cool. I'm going with that then.

Be careful. Whatever you deem says a lot about your character. Being cool with evil because you deem it 'lesser', doesn't make you a better person. It only proves the point. That evil makes excuses to perpetuate and fight evil, creating more evil. Never less evil.

I’m failing to understand your meaning here. Can you please clarify?

No single event ever stands alone. No right or wrong. They're all interconnected, especially and specifically: wars and traumas, humanitarian issues and crisis. It's educated to look back upon history and learn from it. It's more so to understand our human failures perpetuate themselves.

Outside of the Nationalists, its better to think of Japan's war memory as being the victims of war as a concept rather than victims of THE war. Still problematic and prone to white-washing the war.

Do you have any idea why we might have done that? Do you think we should’ve have economically supported what they were doing in China and Korea? ‘Cause this angry goose over here has some questions about what they were using that oil and metal for at the time, and why it was they “had” to continue.

That's the point. There's is always a why!! There's always a reason, economic, territory, power, monopoly, abuse... Human atrocities perpetuate more human atrocities. And until we stop creating the reasons for them... they will not end. No one who participates is morally superior.