• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I just thought about ww2, and I just realized how egregious it is that the Japanese and Italians sided with Nazis.

    They thought “yes, mhm, we are on that side”.

    • a_queer_one@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Don’t sell Italy and Japan short.

      Mussolini invented fascism, and did population-scale deployment of chemical weapons in Ethopia… Imperial Japan are absolutely an all-time G.O.A.T of horrific war crimes.

      Their behavior was egregious, and that’s why they sided with the nazis.

    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Italy was more of a trapped situation

      Japan pre-nukes however were extremely genocidal fascist, look up some of the stuff they did just before WWII, such as the “Rape of Nanjing”, if anything the Nazis took some inspiration from them