Agricola
5 Jul 2009
History / THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN TO WISE OLD PIĆSUDSKI!!!! [67]
1930s Japanese foreign policy was one of expansionism, hardly a guarantor of stability.
Although avoiding a European war would be desireable in itself, would invasion and occupation of Germany be in the best interests of Europe? Especially a Germany that was already making huge leaps forward in economic output and where nationalistic feeling was rising. We may have been able to avoid Hitler in hindsight but there would have been a successor to him.
The Japs could have been guarantors of stability on the eastern flank of a post-Soviet Russia.
1930s Japanese foreign policy was one of expansionism, hardly a guarantor of stability.
Although avoiding a European war would be desireable in itself, would invasion and occupation of Germany be in the best interests of Europe? Especially a Germany that was already making huge leaps forward in economic output and where nationalistic feeling was rising. We may have been able to avoid Hitler in hindsight but there would have been a successor to him.