>>269723In fairness to the japenis, Imperial Japan was basically a coup. iirc the whole thing began when some Japanese senior officer in Manchuria decided to just keep killing and raping and such against Tokyo's orders, and his militarist movement caught on among the military from there. By the time the proper channels of Jap power figured out what was going on, there had already been assassinations and buy outs and shit, so if you look at it from that angle it becomes difficult to say "Japan chose this" so much as "The Japanese military chose this". Even so the Japs of today are not the Japs of yesterday (even doe they refuse to acknowledge, for example, Unit 731 because muh wholesome ancestors) and niggas who draw busty high schoolers can hardly be blamed for the actions of murderous niggers in the 30s.
>They would have had to deal with a revanchist nationalistic regime in China either wayWould the KMT have turned out just as bad as the modern day CCP?
I mean, I don't doubt it because they corpsed the fuck out of the Formosans so maybe KMT China would have eventually gone full Nazi but I think maybe it would be the same as what we have now because Taiwan probably only liberalized at all to cozy up to the West and at the heart of the Chinese communist movement is really a nationalist movement. Mao was a power hungry nationalist nigger from the start imo and he was only a """Communist""" for the sake of being able to suckle on the USSR's tits. We know this because the second it stopped being beneficial they cut Moscow off and started collaborating with America instead. Even today modern day China is more like a fascist state than a Communist one, from what I know of it. Plenty of the drawbacks of socialism, few of the benefits actually reaching the people. Tankies will dickride because it has the hammer and sickle but I don't buy it for one second. I think you probably know better than me though so you tell me.