If the US and the League applied serious sanctions against Japan for the aggression against Manchuria would Japan have gone to war with the rest of the World or backed down?
The other interesting aspect of this is that it kills the popularity of the Militarists. ... Instead of looking like bold leaders, the Militarists look like bunglers. If they try any of their insurrections after this, I'm sure they get clamped down upon, and hard.
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