thomblake comments on Open Thread, October 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 23 October 2012 07:23:57PM 5 points [-]

I have no idea whether Japan would have started its war if Germany hadn't been its ally.

Probably. They didn't have anything like a formal military alliance until the Anti-Comintern Act of 1936, but the war in East Asia arguably started in 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria.