Comment by noduerme

The best thing to come from WWII was the definitive proof that the Axis/Nazi ethos was wrong. National/racial struggle through military might does not determine history. The idea that might can make right in the modern world turned out to be false; it was an exceptional species of hubris. Engaging in that belief now as China or Russia are doing is equally self-defeating. Japan's success is a testimony to the fact that rejection of a warlike nationalist belief system confers more economic power than hanging onto a self-destructive one.