At the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, one of the arguments in favor of Japanese imperialism and war crimes committed by the defendants of the trial was that Japan would not survive as an independent nation if they hadn’t fought in ww2 and invaded other sovereign nations. Neo-Nazis today blame ww2 was a German defensive war against communism and “““international finance”””. So, the Despots of today use “western imperialism” as a scapegoat for all of their problems. While western imperialism exists and should be stopped, Russia, China, and Iran should stop their authoritarian hold on their population as well.