However, that too misses the point, since the question, once again, is not about them or why they chose to do what they did, but the consequences. Their failures — the selfishness, narrow nationalism, unwillingness to grapple with the full significance of their decisions — didn't change the situation in Japan. Even if the feeble peace "faction" did manage to turn tables on the militarists, the improbable relief would have come only months or years into the invasion of the mainland, when millions of lives would have been lost. Yes, more willingness to negotiate and a better grasp of the enemy's
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