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Originally Posted by GoNative
Good or bad I hate to think how many more lives would have been lost throughout Asia and beyond had the US not got involved. No other country in the world at the time had the capability to stop the Japanese. Or those that possibly did were completely embroiled in battles in Europe. The Japanese were definitely not benevolent occupiers of the countries they invaded!
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Had Japan not undertook WW2 Europeans might still be in charge of much of Asia and the Pacific.
If we are going to credit the US with consequences they didn't intend then lets be fair and credit the Japanese too.