Sarah Paine
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And at the end, when he knows full well what he's supposed to be doing, can't do it.
So I wouldn't take him as my source.
Also, at the end, he's got this whiny answer of, oh, it wasn't my fault.
It's all your translators.
And, oh, the peace on Manchuria.
No, I don't know that that would have been a compromise because the League of Nations had sentenced something called the Lytton Commission, which had told the Japanese they had to get out.
And, oh, by the way, it is a fiction that Manchuria is not a part of China.
It is an integral part of China, has been for the longest time.
What the Japanese did is they kidnapped...
The last Qing emperor, Manchu, Manchuria, whose ancestors came from Manchuria, popped him in, Henry Puyi, made him the emperor to try to come up with this fiction that, oh, Manchuria is a separate place.
Excuse me, it's not.
It's part of China.
It's the internationally recognized territory of China.
Hold on.
We weren't fighting Germany.
The only reason we fought Germany is because Hitler made a major blunder.
He had an alliance with Japan that said if Japan was attacked, he would come in.
Not if Japan attacked someone else that he would come in.
He interprets it broadly, and he declares war on this country.
That is how the United States got into World War II, Europe.