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Thank you for refuting the CCP's massive lies. However, even you have been deceived by the anti-Japanese propaganda the CCP relentlessly spreads and have become steeped in the CCP's historical narrative. First, the Japanese military was not fighting the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) IN ISOLATION. The Nationalist Party subjected local Chinese people to terrible suffering through scorched-earth tactics (such as the 1938 Yellow River flood and the 1938 Changsha Fire). The Japanese military worked alongside local administrations—such as the Reformed Government of the Republic of China and the Wang Jingwei 汪兆銘 regime in Nanjing—to maintain public order and provide medical aid. Just one week after entering Nanjing, the local Reformed Government began taking charge of maintaining order. If the Japanese military had been engaging in wanton slaughter, would the local government have cooperated with them? This is something one can understand with a little thought. Six months after entering Nanjing, Japan was administering free smallpox vaccinations to 300,000 people! Would there be any need to vaccinate the population if a mass massacre had taken place? It takes only three seconds to figure that out (just like with the Katyn massacre). The Battle of Nanjing was an urban battle, as was the Battle of Okinawa. Urban warfare inevitably involves civilians, but what was the difference between the two battles? At the very least, the Japanese military established a "Safety Zone" in Nanjing and made efforts—however imperfect—to minimize civilian casualties. What about the Battle of Okinawa? Air raids on Japanese cities and the atomic bombings killed 500,000 Japanese civilians (many of whom were women, children, and the elderly). In the Great Tokyo Air Raid alone, 100,000 people were burned to death in a single night. It was the United States that fixated on the fabricated "Nanjing Incident" during the Tokyo Trials, seeking to justify its own acts of mass slaughter by doing so. Furthermore, the Flying Tigers serve as proof that the U.S. had already entered the war against Japan before formally declaring it; moreover, President Roosevelt had approved JB-355, a plan for a preemptive strike against Japan. Which side struck first was merely a matter of chance. After all, how many wars in history have actually begun with a formal declaration of war? And consider the number of Chinese civilians killed on the mainland after the U.S. drove out the Japanese military; during the 1948 Siege of Changchun alone, 300,000 people starved to death. Consider, too, how many Taiwanese people were killed by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)—which had been driven out by the Chinese Communist Party—after they fled to Taiwan (e.g., the February 28 Incident of 1947 and the White Terror). A little research is all it takes to see the truth of this. From the Russo-Japanese War onwards, Japan fought as a bulwark against Russia and communism. The Venona papers revealed that the Roosevelt administration was manipulated by Russian spies. What became of the world after Japan was driven out of the Far East? The United States bears a significant moral responsibility for the turmoil that has plagued the region ever since. Surely, the U.S. came to understand the violent reality of communism through the Korean and Vietnam Wars? There are likely no modern Americans who would view a mass-killing event like the atomic bombings as a source of honor. After all, the UN Charter explicitly prohibited such mass slaughter of civilians via aerial bombardment immediately following WW2. Who was it that pushed the U.S. into adopting methods that would torment the American conscience for generations? Was this not, in fact, a scheme orchestrated by the Soviet Comintern? Now is the time for the United States itself to shatter the massive lies propagated by communists—lies that began with the fabrication of the Nanking Incident and which the U.S. itself has exploited; otherwise, the U.S. will continue to be manipulated and eroded by the CCP and Russia forever. The current situation—where the CCP and Russia, neither of which existed in 1945, occupy permanent seats on the UN Security Council like bandits—is a scenario brought about by the United States. Japan has chosen to look toward the future and stand alongside America, despite having to swallow various absurdities along the way. It is because there were Americans who did not give up on friendship even during that time of war, Americans who continued to cherish the cherry trees, and Americans who extended a helping hand after the war. I believe in the true strength of America.