The Irony of Shutdowns and Victory
It’s strange how the worst governments never shut down—they just keep running, rewriting history, and telling you they “won World War II in the Pacific.”
Did they not see Oppenheimer?
It’s wild to imply that the communist regime had anything to do with the Pacific theater when Japan had already taken over the region.
The truth is simple: the Pacific became what it was because Japan poked the bear—and the United States answered.
America didn’t just end the war; it rebuilt Japan into a modern powerhouse.
That postwar reconstruction exceeds anything achieved by nations now claiming they “won the Pacific” without ever facing a nuclear reckoning.
And yet here we are—the most functional democracy of the group occasionally shuts down its own government.
The irony writes itself: