[amacbride]

Just the headline itself makes me think of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” and we all know how that turned out.

[snickerbockers]

Okay but we also know how it started, which was not as a bilateral trade agreement. I don't think imperial japan has eternally tarnished the concept of 'prosperity' in the same way that hitler forever tarnished that style of mustache.

[kkkqkqkqkqlqlql]

Thought the exact same. Not even knowing the history of Japan, just from like one frame in the Bill Wurtz video where that name shows up.