Oh. So “Might Makes Right”.
We should apologize to Germany and Japan.
Actually, Japan’s “aggression” in WWII wasn’t vastly different from European actions over the previous century in the region, or indeed our own in the Philippines around the turn of the century.
There were a good deal more violent, and they aggressively took land from European powers who had earlier taken it from the natives. The European powers, understandably, considered this wrong, though it’s difficult to make a logical case why the Dutch conquest of the East Indies was right and proper, but the Japanese conquest of the same areas was immoral and illegal. Or why the American conquest of the Philippines was ok, but not that by Japan.
Recently watched the movie Casablanca again.
Got a kick from the subtext of how naughty the Germans were for conquering the French, when the French themselves had only conquered Casablanca less than 35 years before.
IOW, what moral right did the French have to complain about conquest by the Germans when they’d spent the previous century or so building up a huge overseas empire of their own? Much of it based on a Master Race ideology differing primarily only in harshness from that of the Nazis.