What about the Soviet sponsored anti-ROC Ili rebellion that involved SOV ground troops?

I wish the music a bit lower so you could hear the broadcasts easier, otherwise nice video.

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And Japan is still pushing

It also helps that Japan was taking advantage of the Chinese civil war

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China’s weapon at that time was far behind the world. When Japanese soldiers are using modern weapons, Chinese soldiers probably still using weapons like muskets etc

I think people forget china was literally having a civil war at the time And the Japanese soldiers were fascist monsters, and their brutality is fsvourable in war as seen with Germany

Japan lost a lot of "sea". Midway to Okinawa is over 1000mi

Japan made a massive mistake during its colonisation period. Instead of naturalising the citizens of the empire, they often mistreated the local populations (especially the Japanese army, which was more brutal than the Japanese navy). In doing so, barely any soldiers of the empire were not Japanese thanks to Japan's mistrust towards non-Japanese people. This created a massive problem by the end of the war since there were not many soldiers left to fight, even though hundreds of thousands of Koreans had applied for jobs in the military in the previous years. The Mongolian Empire, on the other hand, mostly recruited people from conquered lands, which was possible thanks to the Mongols'inclusiveness (Khan's tolerance towards religions, for example, is very well documented) and that's how it spread so far. Had Japan treated Korea and China the same way they treated Taiwan, the empire would have been a lot more stable. Had they recruited people from those lands as well, they would have been in an even better position. At that point, the allies wouldn't just have been fighting Japan bust all of East Asia. Germany could have never done the same thing because its expansion was a results of aggression from neighbouring countries and a severe superiority complex. Japan, on the other hand, could have chosen to unify the East for real. But, it sadly didn't. What's also important to note is that Japan is an island while Germany isn't. To defeat Germany, an invasion of Europe by the allies was obligatory. On the other hand, to defeat Japan, the allies needed to either force Japan to surrender by bombing them (which they did) or invade the homeland, which would have been a horrible idea given the Japanese's devotion towards their country. An invasion of China, Korea or the South-East would have given the allies no benefits

@@Ricky911_ WTF are you talking about, Japan conscripted heavily in Korea, first for labor and later for military. Also, Taiwanese participation in the IJA/IJN was hardly any better than Korean participation. Japanese holdings in China weren't a part of Japan, they were ruled as a series of puppet states. The issue is that Chinese troops had loyalty and reliability issues, but they were useful for internal security and that's how they were utilized. As for other puppet states, you're talking about states that's only existed for 2~3 years. State building has barely begun, let alone building a working military.

@@taoliu3949 Between 1938 and 1943, 800k Koreans applied for military applications but only a little over 17k were enlisted. You could have literally just done a Google search before saying that. The fact that they conscripted for labour isn't something I talked about because it's true. Japan was looking for cheap labour and there was no shortage of it by the end of the war. What they were lacking, was soldiers. Most of China was made up of puppet states but not all of China. Manchuria, for example, had been taken in 1931, 6 years before they invaded the rest of China yet they still hesitated to naturalise them into the empire. I suggest you read about Kishi Nobusuke, the Japanese PM between 1957 and 1960. He oversaw the industrialisation of Manchuria between 1936 and 1941, committing a lot of crime against humanity in the process. Japan could have easily had loyal soldiers from Manchuria as well as other parts of China if they had treated the people there well. Massacring 300k people at Nanjing certainly didn't help with their image

@@Ricky911_ That's how us British did it with our empire. We recruited locally but made sure the officers were mostly British for the "white" nations Canada, NZ, Australia and South Africa. They were "our sort". The non-white nations were not. The British army itself was very small. In the 1930's it barely existed at all. Most defence spending in those days went on the Royal Navy and airforce. It was only the threat of war with Germany in the late 1930's that forced the government to increase defence spending.

yeah the chinese front is so overshadowed by the western (no offense)

I have been waiting for this a long time

who knew that a GTA youtuber would be such a history buff

I'm shocked that people ignore it, Europeans treat it like a sideshow, it was extremely important and without USA intervention those japs would have never been dislodged.

The Professional’s Grandpa won a Medal of Honor for being the secretary of GTA how to Grind videos. And you wonder why US logi was so good during the War? The Nazis even sent a Oppressor Mark 2 to grief The Professionals grandpa. It ran out of fuel due to Germany’s fuel problem and British and American Radar picked it up because, Germany didn’t have enough Stolen Jewish Money to pay Lester.

Island hopping maximized the value of the naval advantage the US had developed (the same logic by which Japan had taken the islands in the first place, when the advantage was theirs).

Yeah. The Japanese fought like rabid dogs for every conquered land they gained. It would be admirable if the government and army (For Japan ww2 is one and the same) weren’t ferocious monsters

​@@dudermcdudeface3674Not only that, but islands like Pelileu and Iwo Jima were critical as their capture meant US bombers were finally in range of the Japanese mainland.

Was cake walk compared to eastern front

This video should have used flags instead of tiny colored pixels for islands so we could see the island hopping.

Me too!

The British too. Americans think they won the war on their own but they just arrived late kicking and screaming as usual.

​@@chickenmadness1732Okay what did you guys do; sink Japanese ships near Sri Lanka, and defend India because that's what you guys did.

@@chickenmadness1732 to be fair even if the war in China was pretty much in a stalemate, Japan was progressing dangerously in the Pacific. The US was critical in the IIWW when supplying the "free" world with their superior and untouched industrial complex and depriving the axis of those same goods. And if the US did anything important (militarily) in the war was in the Pacific theater, were they effectively turned the tie. Even with that, only the Soviet intervention convinced the Japanese that they no longer could keep their empire and the days of a Major World Power were over. Why? Because the war of the Soviets was the same as the war of the Japanese, sacrificing as many men as necessary. Japan's strategy was to tire the Americans psychologically, because they were convinced that being a democracy, with the wounds of the civil war just closed and having next to no experience in big wars, that could be done regardless of Japanese casualties. And the Russians... Well, you see that Germany proved the world that they couldn't be tired and had to be exterminated, something Japan never could have done.

@@plorabare Lol now Brits are trying to take credit for the Pacific, doesn't get any more delusional

U shouldnt be proud of soldiers. Nor of politicians. A lesson i hope u learn in life.

@@AGTaNGrA.u r lost 😂😂😂

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It was just a normal war. Definetly not a worldwar. During the polish invasion, way more countries were involved. Including the french and british colonies.

@@lubitel_tankov.it's just a way of expression

World war 2 started when the British and French empires declared war on Germany. A world war means that many countries or regions of most or all continents are at war.

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@Taczy2023 You refer to American submarines destroying Japanese shipping as if it were a military achievement for the United States. Then, do you know "Tragedy of Tsushima Maru"? During the war, Japan mobilized adults, while children were evacuated to regions where they were less likely to be damaged by air raids, as they were the future leaders of Japan. The Tsushima Maru was carrying 1,700 people, including children, women, and the elderly, and headed for the evacuation destination. However, it was attacked and sunk by the American submarine USS Bowfin, killing most of its passengers. Those of you who were victorious in the war may not know this, but in Japan it is still talked about as a tragedy during the war. I think we need to pay more attention to the tragedies caused by wars, not just the victories and defeats of wars.

@@user-fj1fd4jo2j In Japan do they also talk about Imperial soldiers putting babies on spears, or the rape of Nanking, the brutal slavery and starvation of POWs, sexual slavery of woman in the occupied areas, beheading POWs, human experimentation, mass killings, Manila massacre when Japanese soldiers killed 100,000 Philippine civilians, cannibalism of allied soldiers, attacking hospital ships? What about those things. They showed no mercy to the civilians of occupied nations nor the allied POWs. Agreed though, war is a breeding ground of tragedies.

​@@Taczy2023and the human experiments

In 1944 they even got into far eastern India

@@themelonman4303While having practically no supplies...oil...food... And being outnumbered. Quite literally Japanese willpower and late-war last ditch Arisaka rifles against the British empire and their Indian slaves+Chinese support

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pYSchnieaXqo22Q.html this video of the war imo shows it all better

It is covered more often. You're just living in the United States.

@@polishlithuaniainanutshell5146it is covered a lot in the unitedvstates lol. The country won the pacific war

Thats because this was an unjust war to steal another country's territory and resources. As a result, the Japanese government wasnt able to call a full mobilization to conscript all male citizens until they declare war to the allies in 1941. Same thing that went for Nazi Germany in ww2, Germany wasn't able to call a full mobilization until 1943 by minister Speer. Most people are not stupid, they understand to fight as a soldier meaning possibly dying in battle. They simply refuse if there is not a good reason.

Do not be so critical, the United States at that time fought on the side of Japan, supplied resources, and military specialists and intelligence were at the front in China, at the headquarters of Japan. Have you heard of Detachment 731? In those years, they often lectured in the United States as invited experts. It was the gap in US aid to Japan that forced Japan to attack and it was in 41. Let me remind you that the Japanese-Chinese war began at 37. 4 years difference.

@@dimushka383USA did not fight on the side of japan wtf

@@astronova3508 not openly. I said something else. They supplied resources, technologies and military specialists there, as well as provided intelligence. The contact was very tight. But the main thing I wanted to say is that in 1938 Japan had no problems, on the contrary, they were going to success, the problems began in 1941, just at that time the United States turned away from them, and the US military specialists crossed the front line and began to work already for China , moreover, funny, from the side of Japan they took out maps with the location of troops and the directions of the planned strikes. And so that you have no doubts about how tight the contact between the USA and Japan was, take an interest in the fate of the 731 detachment of Japan, do you know what kind of detachment it is? What is he famous for and what awaited them if they were defeated in the war? So, with the already expected defeat of Japan and the threat of their capture by the Russians and the Chinese and the imminent execution for crimes, the entire elite was evacuated to the USA, where they received positions as professors and group leaders at US universities and laboratories. Look who interceded for group leader Shiro Ishii, US generals and admirals, and his non-prosecution was guaranteed on behalf of the country.

@@dimushka383 duuuuude grab a history book or something

funny joke ngl

@@kayckinwait what do you mean?

manpower was the only thing really going for china, they lacked everything else, chinese were operating on a constant shortage of guns and artillery, training in most units was poor at best, plus there were internal politics with chiang trying to keep the warlords united as well as dealings with the communists

​@@justit1074yes, the Chinese were badly equipped, badly trained, and has been embroiled in civil war and industrialization was kinda difficult for the country

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well no shit they were practically unopposed.

@@expertbrody9914 in terms of lack of resistance, they were up to 700,000, it's just that Russia was much stronger in all aspects, that's all, they killed up to 100,000 soldiers and the rest were captured after Japan surrendered.

​@SlowTheBlack The Japanese military waited in their strong points all but a handful were completely avoided by the Soviets, going so fast they literally out ran there suply line's on multiple occasions some units waited 2 to 3 days for resupply of oil to be brought up, if the Japanese had of attempted to resist it would have been a cluster f-up of an oparation for the soviets. The Japanese military was talking to the Japanese high command, who ordered them to stay put and basically not move on the soviets as they were in talks with the USA. In terms of the Japanese they lost some 22,000 men KIA, out of there 660k men, the Japanese allies the Chinese forces fighting for the Japanese lost the majority of men about 60k estimated of there 200k to 260k men / the deaths are claimed by the Russians, the Japanese admit they don't know as majority deserted. The majority of the Japanese surrendered without firing a shot, only about 40,000 Japanese and Soviets even shot at each other, the majority of the Japanese allies deserted before the soviets advanced, most ran home many were rounded up later and executed and put in the death estimates for the soviets forces to look far better then there actually where. Edit: For people confused, I'm not talking about the Japanese marching on moscow in 1945, haha! Or winning just holding them back for 6 months to a year, the fact that the Japanese basically surrendered and the soviets lucky didn't lose another half million to a million men is the point, the soviets made massive mistakes in this campaign that would have cost them a lot in the first 6 day's luckily the Japanese were talking to the USA about surrender term's.

​@@expertbrody9914Yeah but don't tell the soviets that they get upset lol!

@@brianlong2334 It doesn't change anything, Japan couldn't do anything against the USSR in 1939, and by 1945 they wouldn't have been able to do anything at all, the USSR had become much stronger and Japan hadn't.

Unfortunately it's not accurate

The Japanese weren't totally out of the war like most believe. They were on their last legs, but it wasn't going down without fighting, the plan from day one was to. The Japanese home islands still received 8 million tons of supplies in 1945 to put into perspective that's what the USA used to fight on the western front from North Africa to Europe. The Japanese military was still massive 6 million strong with over 1million allies/ pupets when it surrendered, it still posesed 20,000 to 50,000 aircraft the majority were held back for defence operations of the home islands, majority were to be used for kamikaze attacks if the USA landed or attempted to land on Japan. They also called up over 31million men woman and children as young as 8 armed with just bamboo spears for mass kamikaze attacks and construction why waiting for the invasion. They also had thousands of speedboat for again kamikaze attacks and divers, it would have been unlike anything we had seen in ww2 had the invasion gone ahead.

@@brianlong2334 the biggest blow to them was how fast the soviets took them out in mandshuria.

@@brianlong2334 On the other hand, they were doomed, because the Soviets defeated all the ground forces on the mainland, taking only more than 600 thousand soldiers (consider no reinforcements), and captured the northern islands with landing forces. Opening your way already in the heart of Japan. The Japanese were squeezed on the islands, forcing them to defend themselves from all sides, dispersing their forces against much stronger enemies, it is impossible to create a strong defense everywhere. OK. From the north, the threat of landing on Hokaido from the USSR, from the south, the landing of the allies on Kyushu. But these are already the sacred islands of Japan itself, where both the population and industry are concentrated. A hit on them immediately removes all opportunities for further resistance, no matter what spirit you have.

They always had mobility and organization to do that but it didn't serve any strategic purpose

@@dimushka383the Soviet’s could not have invaded Hokkaido 😂

And don't forgetthe native islanders resistance

So imagine Japan, fighting all of them! and winning during the early stage of WW2, thats how strong Japan was.

@@mitjed Japan really was a mid tier power in WW2. The British defenses were dilapidated, under supplied and understaffed as Britain focused on Germany. The United States entered the war with a tiny standing military and sent 90% of the war effort toward the "Germany first" policy. The only country that brought their full force to fight Japan was China. And ofc, China was coming off a century of stagnation, revolution, fragmentation and civil war.

@@doctorferdinand1003 That's probably what the Colonists (Dutch, US, British empire and France) where thinking lol mid tier power. Japan was just a mid tier power. When in reality, Japan pre WW2 has one of the strongest army and navy in the world. Disciplined and fearless. Their army are able to defeat a more numerical armies of the west and China, fighting at the same time in a different lands. Nobody in history has ever wage war at the same time in East Asia, Aleutian Islands, South East Asia and Pacific Islands before.

@@mitjed Yea, like danish.

And the Solomon Islands

Japan also crushed the Russian navy in 1905, completely sunk their Baltic fleet during the first modern navy battles, while they were barely a burgeoning power

@@Big_Caesar1to be fair the Russian navy was trash lol. And Russia was just massive at the time.

@@user-rj4gu5oh3k That can be said for basically any point in Russian history, but it was a pretty big embarrassment at the time, Japan was viewed as irrelevant, backwards, incapable, not fit to stand with the great powers. Japan didn't ask Russia to sail across the world to get their ass kicked, to be fair.

@@Big_Caesar1 yep the problem too at the time was the Russian tsars did not give a fuck about anything including infrastructure. Which would mean they could simply not transport their troops fast enough to the front causing them to be embarrassed by the Japanese.

​@@user-rj4gu5oh3kTo be fair, look up pretty much any war that Russia/USSR fought in and they performed extremely poorly.

WW1 was kinda worse tbh

​@@TheGuyFrom7Hubbleno it wasn't. No genocides or as many deaths as WW2 even the Pacific Front alone

​@@definitelynormal6678there were definitely genocides in ww1

@@definitelynormal6678 laughs in armenian genocide, Greek genocide, Assyrian genocide

​@@QWERTY-gp8fdHolocaust was way scarier, there are about 6-7 million victims of the Holocaust at least

What? It's commonly acknowledged the Pacific theatre was absolutely brutal, for the Americans even more so than in Europe. There is a reason they felt the need to drop two nukes on Japan just to force them to the negotiation table. I'm not sure who is supposed to be underappreciating it.

@@caspertrog1046 The Americans didn't suffer as much as the Europeans, please study your history before making a statement like that. How many casualties did the Americans have?

@@colinyau5063 A lack of American casualties is a bad thing? It just shows America's effectiveness against the Japanese war machine lol.

@@waldo_9338 it just shows that they weren't that committed. and waited till everything is done by the Soviets to rush to the Berlin.

@@caspertrog1046 Japan was forced to the negotiation table by the Soviets defeating Kwantung Army what they barely show in the video. the vile terror act of dropping nuclear bombs on civil cities was just a display of power. it was done for another negotiations. the division of the world with USSR.

I wouldn't say they're portrayed as helpless, but most people I've ever seen mention the Pacific front just barely mention it as "where Japan was in the first couple years"

Nope, the most unfair thing is that ussr destroyed japan half million forces in almost 1 week, but nobody tells about it. Not nuclear weapon made japan accept the defeat, but ussr forces did.

@@flatl1ne I mean, nobody talks about it cuz it's a ridiculous, untrue claim. lol Russia did not 'destroy' half a million forces in a week. There's simply no such thing. But going by your talking points, I'm guessing you're Russian yourself? Slava Ukraini. Get fucked.

потому что это называется "американская пропаганда". Американцы сделали во второй мировой войне от силы 5% вклада, но превозносят это так, будто они круче всех и вообще это они "победили".

​@flatl1ne There is this delusional idea that it was one singular reason the Japs must have surrendered instead of taking a more nuanced look at the subject. It was a combination of factors that led the capitulation, the Soviet invasion and atomic bombs are just 2 of them.

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@@trentonking764 even if it does, it’s all about how accurate it is. I mean if you are calling it so easy why aren’t you doing it right now and earn yourself a living

“Iron Age” and “steal age” ?????

Clearly it did lol

@@Snoopy9675 I believe he expressed the ecenturies of differences between the Japanese and the Chinese.

What the hell do you mean? That China didn't realize guns are powerful weapons? You don't just want industrialization for industralization to happen.

@@Snoopy9675 Man lives in Terra

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A war between Asia's only industrial power and an agrarian nation would have been a continuing hellish ordeal for China without Western arms, and when Japan faced the Soviet Union, it was crushed by a Soviet tank cluster。

that is precisely why the atomic bombs were used too many casualties would've ensued if the war dragged on

Yes, but on the Chinese mainland Japanese troops were bogged down and confronted with countless Chinese soldiers, and in the Pacific and Indonesia, Japanese soldiers were being killed off by disease and malnourishment

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@@user-pe5is9yb1l 中共が勝ったのは、ソ連軍が撤退したあと、ソ連軍の兵器と日本軍の兵器を使って、250万人の近代的な軍隊をたったの10カ月でつくりあげたからです。 国軍の上将は回想して、共産軍の火力は私が抗日の時すべて出会ったことがないので、ソ連は全く保留の援助の中共の武器、しかしまた中国を分割したくて、ソ連と米国が予想しなかったのは共産党の壮大な速度が速すぎたのです。中華人民共和国の成立は西洋のゲームで言えば突然のバグです。 西洋は日本の国を支援して、中国市場を植民地のように徹底して統制することを目的としていたが、日本は西側に依存しながら生意気になって、結局は倒れた。 戦後米国と中華民国が中米友好通商条約に調印したのも、中国を半植民地にしたためだ。 歴史に仮説はない。誰が共産党がいきなり勝ったと思うだろうか。?今の中国人にとっては、国が強くなり、この世代も苦難を経験したことがありません。しかし、わずか50年前の中国人が食事不足だったとは、誰が想像できますか? 今の中国の文化が孤立主義になっているのは、中国が徹底して外国人を嫌っているからです。私たち中国人の言葉で言えば、残酷な外国は外国人に対する私たちの高潔さを徹底的に破壊しました。

That is absolutely untrue. Japan never wanted to expand the war, they did not have the capability to do so. Had Shanghai not happened, Japan could have just steamrolled China in the Central Plains. What happened was Chiang expanded the war by attacking the Japanese garrisons in Shanghai, which ended up with Japan sending hundreds of thousands of troops pushing along the Yangtze River Valley. This meant Japan could not utilize their mech advantage and instead of what would have been a more decisive conflict, it turned into a stalemate and war of attrition. After that, everything Japan did was an attempt to cut China off from outside resources, hence capturing of ports, and then French Indochina (Kunming Railroad ran to Hanoi). This greatly alarmed the Western Powers, especially the US who proceeded to embargo Japan of important resources such as oil.

​@@taoliu3949It's untrue. Since 1894 the first Sino Japanese war,Japan has made it's expanding plan that makes the whole east and sourtheast Asia it's own territory.Up to 1895,it annexed Taiwan(a province of Qing dynasty)and fought for the rule in the Northeast China with Russia.After the WWI,it took the rights German in Shandong Province,and prevented the unification of China led by KMT and CCP and had terrible conflict with Chinese Army.In 1931（6 years earlier than the Pacific War）,it invaded the Northeast China and definitely made Northeast China it's own territory.On the contrary,it was Chiang that didn't want to fight with Japanese even Japs wanted to destroy China because of his own civil war plan in China with CCP.

Context?

@@user-td2jw9ze2c The Americans made the whole world believe that they were the ones who won the war alone.

@@adelaidesngan604 context!

@@adelaidesngan604 I know us didn't and couldn't win alone, but how they were fighting only 20%?

And a majority of the IJN, the Pacific theater was fought by everyone but lead by the US

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This is why the Japanese no longer dare to invade modern China

That was my original idea but the islands are not visible on my map cause i got it off google earth, i would of included army sizes but i lacked information.

@@pigeoninanutshell yeah that was a problem too, there's a problem with the army sizes for each island battle. however arrows with different colors could do the job of mapping the islands

Kuomintang corruption =) The Kuomintang, the only one who really fought in China for China. Corruption is more likely among those who hid in Taiwan after the war. They fought the Kuomintang more than the Japanese.

Yeah, there were plenty of islands visible on this map and they just stayed red until the end. Kinda dissapointing.

工业水平和资源和军队素质日本那时候都有优势

Depends on the quantity and the quality

Both is important

because Chinese don't have guns tanks and plants at that time. you will see what can Chinese do if they have guns in Korea war. by the way Chinese don't have tanks and plants in that war.

Lol Germany lost because of quantity ussr won because of quantity

@@progamer-pd2ji ussr wining has many reason not just quantity. Resources, better decision, winter helping, better allies and ...

war criminal lol

I forgot to color Okinawa as blue during the Editing time, and some landings in the Indonesian Islands. But thank you for speaking out for this mistake.

​@@pigeoninanutshellwhat about philipinee?

Philipines

​@@tobikbobik6064the Philippines were erased 😞

@@pigeoninanutshell The Editing time? Do you mean that the surrender of Japan is the beginning of the American occupation of Japan? While other countries are nothing to you.

Yes, because China was an agricultural country at that time and had not industrialized yet.

@@cy-cb8rs oh really?

@@chibble3591and it was population of 1:4 not 1:8

@@chibble3591with naval and aerial and equipment superiority the difference is really large, even though, Chinese United front and the river incident is important for holding the Japanese, else if China is not United against Japan the same would happen as how the qing dynasty Manchuria worked out, Japanese were out of oil so they had no choice but to attack Allie’s to get oil in rest of asia

@@chibble3591n fact: before around 1939,1940 the Chinese actually had hundreds of tanks from Germany while Japan had none

Germany almost defeated Soviet union who has 2 times more troops than germany But China has 5 times more troops than japan and japan still pushing

Top 2 reasons china was struggling against Japan: 1. Chinese civil war 2. Small industry

I'm rather impressed by how the Chinese were able to resist considering how backwards their military/industry was.

​​@@_blank-_t's not surprising at all, look at how many men they mobilized, at those numbers, each Japanese soldier would have had to kill 20 Chinese each. The numbers were completely against Japan

@@RandomInternetUser_24 yea

China was already in civil war for quite a long time at that point. Besides that the century of humiliation etc etc. China was at a brink of total collapse before even the Japs invaded.

Dutch east indies. Indonesia spawned from republican collaborators that caused the death of some 6million people in the DEI.

That's because those were largely Chinese Troops who lacked heavy equipment.

Hence the nukes. The perfect example of why they were necessary.

​@@theemirofjaffa2266 The Soviets would have taken the whole of Japan too

@@supereero9 No? They literally cancelled an operation that would’ve taken half of Hokkaido because they didn’t have enough available landing craft and the availability of Japanese kamikaze and other stiff resistance they’d face

@@theemirofjaffa2266the Japanese armies in China by this point was largely disintegrating and exhausted, they were facing constant hassle in the rural parts of the country by guerrilla forces and supply shortages, but yeah justify crimes against humanity that’s fine

@Keiko-rb8lf crimes against humanity? You talking about crimes against humanity? 😆 🤣 😂

They needed to ship the supplies (most crucially fuel) from southeast Asia back to Japan. Going by sea was not the option since Philippines was captured and the Japanese navy was basically devastated (also the merchant shipping was lost to effective us submarines). By connecting a continuous land corridor from the tip of Malaysia to northern China, they can hope to ship supplies via there. Having the connection of north and south China was vital to that last hope. War was fought on supplies.

​@@ironchariot601 good to know ty for the info

@asenvelkov-a.k.a.Mr.Shephard you are welcome. One thing I realised when it comes to war is that there was always a reason (geopolitical or geoeconomic) for grabbing a certain territory. And it was not out of pure fanaticism but real strategic reason. Like why China is obsessing with taking Taiwan (unsinkable aircraft carrier near south China Sea) or why Germany insisted on marching through Ardennes during battle of France. I know this when I play hearts of iron 4.

I also added that the whole pacific war was started simply because japan needed southeast Asia (most importantly the oil from Dutch east indies) to finish the war with China. Since Japan was still winning the massive land war with China, they had that hope till 1945.

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​@@Yourmom-kz7wmyour point is right and wrong same time

​@@Yourmom-kz7wm 应激护主了是吧。

China wouldn't have done crimes of this extent.

The american invasion of phillipines is shown.

​@@pigeoninanutshellNo it isn’t AMERICAN not japanese in 1944 Is not shown at all

​@abbfilmann3735 if you look closely he actually showed the liberation of the Philippines but the color is very similar to the ocean.

​@@abbfilmann3735the liberation of philliphies is shown look closely man