Pearl Harbor Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the precursor to the current relationship between the US and Japan.

The alternatives to the current scenario are interesting. If Japan and the US had maintained an uneasy peace, could they have compromised over the Pacific sphere rather than fight over it?Would China ever have emerged as a power had the US not so thoroughly decimated Japanese influence?

Regardless, one thing is clear. Pearl Harbor preceded great bloodshed by both the Japanese and American peoples. Whatever complaints one has about the way geopolitics work today, we are certainly in a better place.