[bobjam]

Is it possible that less than a hundred years after defending China from Japan we could end up defending Japan from China?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #4

Things change.

[PigRigger]

"Is it possible that less than a hundred years after defending China from Japan we could end up defending Japan from China?"

You may very well be right; although a military confrontation may not be the protection they need.

Although Japan is not the same country it was 70 or so years ago; the brutality of its occupation in the far east has not been forgotten.

I was not alive during those times; but when I read accounts of the atrocities they committed I can fully understand the terror and hate they cultivated.

Of course this does not excuse any violence against them but it puts into context the passionate protests we are currently witnessing.

[Strategerist]

Is it possible that less than a hundred years after defending China from Japan we could end up defending Japan from China?

Other than nukes Japan doesn't need any help to defend itself from China. And Japan could have its own nukes within 6 months any time it chose to.

[katana]

Well, we did defend the western half of Germany from our erstwhile Soviet allies for 45 years and are still there to this day. Nations do not have friends, only interests.

[DM1]

"Is it possible that less than a hundred years after defending China from Japan we could end up defending Japan from China?"
i would say more LIKELY than Possible