Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Japan made every effort to keep to themselves until American capitalist military bitch Commodore Perry infested them with the disgusting disease of capitalism. Had to open trade had to open trade HAD TO OPEN TRADE. Couldn’t leave one inch of the globe free from capitalism. Japan had no interest in imperialism at all but America had to keep poking at them like a school kid who just wants to be left alone. All I can say is it gives me great pleasure to know how many Americans suffered and died in our imperialist wars, including WW2, even if America wasn’t wiped off the map like it deserved to be.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.