Sarah Paine
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So it'll be like sort of the dog that barks.
You take a newspaper and thwap him a few times and maybe the dog will start barking.
Because what the Japanese want is the United States just mind his own business, stay out of Asia.
It's our backyard.
It's not your backyard.
And looks at the United States.
The United States doesn't have that much trade with Asia compared to the rest of the world.
Sure, it sells Japan most of its oil, but that's not most of U.S.
trade.
Okay.
I wouldn't take Tojo as my source for anything.
He's a guy who โ it was before a graduating class of cadets or something.
He was talking about how even โ people had said that he was mediocre, but look where he'd risen to be, and he's this great man.
And then at the end, when he's supposed to commit suicide, well, the way you do it, as I've described, and he's an army officer.
So what does he do?
He takes a gun and he shoots himself.
It's buddy, point blank range with a gun.
How hard can it be?
And he survives that one, and we glue them back together.
So here's the honorable samurai who sent so many children or young people to their deaths.