𝑭𝑬𝑹𝑴𝑰

This is the fascist core beneath the postwar costume. This descendant of Japanese fascists is not “joking” about Nanjing. He is invoking the massacre of Chinese civilians as a threat against Thai people — as if mass killing were a legitimate lesson to be repeated against Asians who refuse to stay quiet. That is genocidal intimidation. Fascism remains fascism, no matter how carefully it is repackaged as “civilized” and “peace-loving.” When Nanjing is invoked as a warning of what could be done to another Asian people, the ideology behind the massacre is speaking for itself. The mask slips, and underneath it is the same appetite for domination, collective punishment, and exterminatory violence. He demonstrated precisely that the Japanese were not innocent victims of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that they had never learned the lesson.