XPost: can.politics, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:11:16 -0400, Phantom_View wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:22:34 -0500, "Byker"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>"Phantom_View"  wrote in message   
   >>news:4ldmjfp5vsa39k39g611krbt9od9409e9v@4ax.com...   
   >>   
   >>On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:22:59 -0500, "Byker"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Meanwhile, the Soviets would've been invading from the north,   
   >>>>starting with Hokkaido...   
   >>>   
   >>>  Yep. They were caught in a lethal pincer ... but they   
   >>>  still intended to fight to the last toddler.   
   >>   
   >>Hirohito also knew that there would be no place   
   >>for a god-emperor in a Soviet-subjugated society...   
      
   There was no place for a God Emperor in America's Weirld, either:   
   Hirohito became a Constitutional Monarch on a September afternoon   
   on the USS Missouri.   
      
   Dhu   
      
   >   
   >   He would have wound up like the last emperor of China.   
   >   
   >   We were DAMNED SMART to keep on Hirohito. He was   
   >   mostly harmless - but his figurehead value was enourmous.   
      
      
      
      
      
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