Sarah Paine

That would require really detailed knowledge.

Oh, it's worse than that.

They don't have the fuel to actually train the pilots.

And as we learned in 9-11, sorry to bring it back, it's really much easier to learn how to take off a plane and crash it into something, right?

That's what those guys were doing, than it is to teach them how to make safe landings under weird conditions.

So the kamikaze was just an act of—it's a guided missile, right?

And it was an act of having very few assets at the end of the war and not enough fuel to fly anyone anywhere.

So it's going to be a guided missile into an aircraft carrier or a battleship destroyer or something.

Well, you're conflating, I think, Western values about what the purpose of the government is.

Well,

in common wealth, common wheel, common wheels, common good, and this notion that governments are about the well-being of individuals.

Okay, well, we're not in societies where we're talking about individuals for openers, certainly not in Japan.

Then there's another, well, why the death's so huge?

It's at the end of these wars, you've broken the transportation system that gets produce to hungry mouths, and you've also removed so much manpower.

Literally from the fields, you aren't producing anything.

So that you're talking about mass starvation as a result of having done a number of previous years of warfare.

And also this mass starvation helps account for why one side gets shattered and quits.

And then the thing that ought to give everyone pause is, okay, if Japan's economy was, I don't know, a tenth of ours in World War II, and these are the kind of costs that they could inflict, watch it on getting into wars with countries that you think you're vastly superior to.

It may not work out.

The costs are horrific.