What was that Tora Tora Tora statement?
I believe we have awakened a sleeping giant?
So true. Imperial Japan was guilty of one of those spectacular historical examples of overreaching. They thought they could knock out a mighty industrial nation by sinking a few carriers and numerous airplanes. A country as old as China really ought to know better.
Or Nazi Germany, gorging itself on little neighbors and then while duking it out with England they try to take on Russia. Two-front war? No problem. And now today China is menacing its little neighbors...