The new president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba have tried to leave old feuds behind and look to the future at a Tokyo summit.
Yeah, that’s an interesting point. Perhaps there are cultural difference that makes it more difficult to let go of old grudges.
Or maybe Europe is just more used to fighting eachother and becoming friends again once it’s over.
I mean, I’m Swedish, we may joke about the Danes and talk shit about them. But if something serious were to actually happen we’d stand behind them no questions asked. And I’m pretty sure we have the record for most wars and battles fought between two nations.
One issue is that Japan was treated with kid’s gloves after WW2 unlike Germany, the Germans were made keenly aware of how much they fucked up and the allies spent some effort to “denazify” the country - even if it was incomplete, it was still a lot more than what was done in Japan.
Now that I think about it, it probably also helped a ton that the EU wasn’t just two countries, but pretty much from the very beginning a round table of more-or-less equals. Really takes the edge off animosities between any two countries in a way that’s probably impossible when all you have is bilateral relations, even when there’s a guarantor like the USA that would prevent any active hostilities.
I suppose I took it for granted how well my own country was able to deal with that kind of situation.
Yeah, that’s an interesting point. Perhaps there are cultural difference that makes it more difficult to let go of old grudges.
Or maybe Europe is just more used to fighting eachother and becoming friends again once it’s over.
I mean, I’m Swedish, we may joke about the Danes and talk shit about them. But if something serious were to actually happen we’d stand behind them no questions asked. And I’m pretty sure we have the record for most wars and battles fought between two nations.
One issue is that Japan was treated with kid’s gloves after WW2 unlike Germany, the Germans were made keenly aware of how much they fucked up and the allies spent some effort to “denazify” the country - even if it was incomplete, it was still a lot more than what was done in Japan.
Now that I think about it, it probably also helped a ton that the EU wasn’t just two countries, but pretty much from the very beginning a round table of more-or-less equals. Really takes the edge off animosities between any two countries in a way that’s probably impossible when all you have is bilateral relations, even when there’s a guarantor like the USA that would prevent any active hostilities.