The Japanese fought against communism in WW2 also.
No.
If they had, they would have supported Chiang Kai-shek by opposing the Soviets and their tool, Mao.
Yes, the Japanese Empire in Manchuria fought border wars against the Soviets, but they attacked Chiang's Nationalists at the same time. Finally, they signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviets (April 1941) just before turning their troops south to attack the Dutch East Indies, Pearl Harbor, and the Philippines.
This pact allowed Stalin to bring Marshal Zhukov from Siberia to lead the Red Army against... Operation Barbarossa.
(And remember, the Soviets fought border wars with Communist China in 1969.)
The Nazis and the Imperial Japanese did nothing for the West.
you're the one who needs to read a history book because you're completely wrong. China was under the control of the KMT during WWII, which was decidedly not communist, and actually fighting a civil war at the same time with the CCP. if Japan were anti-communist they would've sided with the KMT. instead they fought both the KMT and the CCP because their goal was just imperialism and expansion.
also Japan attacked the US because the US was sanctioning them. they had an agreement to buy oil from the US to fund their war machine but then the US backed out of it.
No.
If they had, they would have supported Chiang Kai-shek by opposing the Soviets and their tool, Mao.
Yes, the Japanese Empire in Manchuria fought border wars against the Soviets, but they attacked Chiang's Nationalists at the same time. Finally, they signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviets (April 1941) just before turning their troops south to attack the Dutch East Indies, Pearl Harbor, and the Philippines.
This pact allowed Stalin to bring Marshal Zhukov from Siberia to lead the Red Army against... Operation Barbarossa.
(And remember, the Soviets fought border wars with Communist China in 1969.)
The Nazis and the Imperial Japanese did nothing for the West.
you're the one who needs to read a history book because you're completely wrong. China was under the control of the KMT during WWII, which was decidedly not communist, and actually fighting a civil war at the same time with the CCP. if Japan were anti-communist they would've sided with the KMT. instead they fought both the KMT and the CCP because their goal was just imperialism and expansion.
also Japan attacked the US because the US was sanctioning them. they had an agreement to buy oil from the US to fund their war machine but then the US backed out of it.