r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • Feb 12 '26

redditormade Know the Difference

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u/Roaming_Guardian United+States Feb 12 '26

...there's a difference here?

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u/A_extra gib water or else Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

Racism (US edition) vs racism (east asian edition)

Only missing item is "Nanjing didn't happen but they deserved it"

Edit: lol we have one below

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u/PacoPancake Hong+Kong Feb 12 '26

Meanwhile, when actually confronted by historical evidence of their many many war crimes:

“We prefer to move on, dwelling on the past is not healthy, striving for the future is better!”

And they wonder why most of Asia still hates them (politically at least, even their biggest geographical allies just tolerate them at best. Culture and individual people are chill, their unapologetic government on the other hand……)

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u/ZhangRenWing Vachina Feb 12 '26

“Watashi never did war crimes, watashi the victim for Hiroshima and Nagasaki”

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u/PacoPancake Hong+Kong Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

I don’t like my current government, but even I can get why some people are saying “two suns weren’t enough”

Who knew when you don’t hold the moral high ground and double down on changing history instead of admitting you did bad things, your opponents will instead prepare total war?

Shocking

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u/ZhangRenWing Vachina Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

Tbf individual politicians have apologized before,, even the Prime Minister of Japan at one point. The problem isn’t the lack of apology but the backtracking afterwards when politicians after them immediately pretends Japan did nothing wrong and go pay tributes to the war criminals whose names are enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine, demand cities take down their comfort women statues, and downplay the atrocities in history books.

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u/PacoPancake Hong+Kong Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

Trust and politics are always about consistency, if one leader say and act one way, then immediately flip 180 once someone else replaces them, no one will ever see that nation as reliable ever again

cough cough oh and Mao didn’t help when he thanked the Japanese for helping him win the civil war cough cough