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Japan became imperialistic, I'm not denying that, nor am I blaming the Americans or Japanese for what happened. I am saying that American behaviour was interpreted as provocative (I'm sure the Japanese were quite aware that they were jumping over US interests, of course). In the spirit of the imperialistic age all of this is understandable as the ideology of the period was quite different, though much of it including manifest destiny remains 'til this day. America was imperialistic too, remember. |
Okay, okay. I'll concede your point. The world was full of imperialistic players. Its was a huge power play. Countries stepping on one another's toes. In a lot of ways America did set Japan down that path from when Perry forced them to open up. I dont know. It is all very complicated. Cant think through all the temporal permeations, cause and effect patterns and what not. It just all boiled down to a very sad state of affairs by the time the bomb was dropped.
