>Documents submitted by Suzuki at the same meeting suggested that, in the diplomatic overtures to the USSR, Japan adopt the following approach:
>"It should be clearly made known to Russia that she owes her victory over Germany to Japan, since we remained neutral, and that it would be to the advantage of the Soviets to help Japan maintain her international position, since they have the United States as an enemy in the future."
On the scale of "pushing it too far" to "are you legitimately fucking retarded", how does Japan fair in diplomatically negotiating peace in WWII?
>>2423116
Japan really raped Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
>>2423515
but that's Imperial Russia and at its weakest
>>2423116
I imagine that the Soviets would fall over laughing.
>>2423116
The Japs were such scumbags with their diplomacy in that time.
>Attack Russia without a DOW
>Attack USA without a DOW
>Ignore atrocities their troops did everywhere they went
And this on top of it? Glad their prescription of A-Bombs made them warm up to the world.
>>2423637
I say as a Japanese
The Japanese army is not evil
Suzuki was thinking
After the Second World War
A war begins between America and the Soviets
America and the Soviets can not destroy Japan
They can not make colonies or slaves in Japan
They need to support Japan
It will be such a situation
>>2423116
Trying to go through the Soviet Union to negotiate peace between Japan and the United States was the dumbest foreign policy move ever. They should have gone through Switzerland or something...