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What's the earliest POD cutline possible?

Just same old imperialism that was in practice by the old gang in Southeast Asia. How they were to achieve that was an entirely separate issue.

Basically, something that Japan never even tried to do?

Try starting from the premise. What "horrific goals for the rest of Asia"?

Please read The Way of the Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the 1920's. The path to militarism started in the midst of WW1, as industralized total war and the Siberian Expedition compounded with domestic issues to concentrate power to the IJA.

That's like arguing Belgium had a goal of extermination in the Congo.

Nothing changes except a slight rise in the total cost of logistics. USN had perfected the supply chain system, so aside from needing a few more ships USN can do what it did without too much a hassle. Quite an ignorant comment. They've already risked their entire regular carrier force, without...

Talking about imperialism, not the institution of slavery.

Other than enslavement which was pretty much what every major empire except the United States did, exactly what was so horrific about those goals? Goals and methods are different things.

No, since both sides knew that eventually they wouldn't actually need to install missiles on allied territory. Of course, you would do so for fast response and spreading the eggs, for in strategic terms it wasn't necessary.

Could have, yes. Would have? Why deal with all that logistical problems when you have the Japanese in the Pacific and Southeast Asia to fight?

Not a problem, as long as people are enlightened to the real Adolf Hitler instead of the misleading fables you see about his becoming antisemitic because a girl he admired was Jewish and all those things.

But he returned to Korea with a specific purpose, as read in that article:

I doubt it, given his support for the independence movements.

Again, read the book I recommend, it shows the circumstances of that. But to provide a summary, he was half-forced to give up that share of his father's pension.