“Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”
“You believe in surprise, much more so than us.”
“Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”
“You believe in surprise, much more so than us.”
Wouldn’t it be worse if they made a Perl harbor joke?
Or if Trump made a Hiroshima joke?
I’m frankly surprised that he didn’t. Maybe he couldn’t remember the name of Hiroshima.
The question he was answering was “why didn’t you tell your allies (like Japan) before attacking Iran?”
So his sarcastic answer of “why didn’t you tell the US before attacking us in WWII?” is dumb, tone deaf, and offensive.
Dumb because Japan and the US were enemies when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor… so why tf would the tell us beforehand? The question was “Why didn’t you tell your allies you were going to attack Iran,” not “Why didn’t you tell Iran you were going to attack Iran?”.
Tone deaf because he’s trying to making a joke in response to a serious question about war, and bringing up a sensitive topic between our two countries.
And offensive because he’s making it sound like Japan were the only ones who did awful things when we fought in WWII. Hot take probably, but the US did far more heinous things to Japan in WWII than they did to the US.
Those who fought in the South Pacific would beg to differ. And the Japanese were also committing genocide and enslaving populations in the countries they occupied. The fact that they didn’t do more damage to the US was because the US successfully prevented them from doing so, not because they were decent people.
I’m not trying to excuse Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but let’s also not pretend Tojo and his gang were anything but murderous power-mad scum.
You mean like dropping nukes on cities?
OK but also China.
Thanks for the clarification. I was legit confused on context which is on brand for the current regime.
I know you’re not deliberately minimizing the atrocities Japan committed back then…