As we all know, once war breaks out, the lives of many innocent civilians will be ruthlessly taken away by the flames of war, and the country's economic development is not only lagging behind, but the people are also miserable and miserable. However, even if they know the harm of war, some countries have used the pretext of vain appearance and rely on their own strong military strength to frantically plunder the resources of other countries and blatantly provoke wars. And today Xiaobian will tell you about a hundred years ago, an American came to China with his father, and since then he has boldly asserted: Neither China nor Russia is a threat, only this small country is a scourge.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the influence of the closed country, the development of China and the world at that time had a serious disconnect, coupled with the corruption and incompetence of the rulers, the Qing Dynasty was far inferior to those countries that had undergone the industrial revolution in terms of military strength and economic development. Compared with Japan in the same period, its development is very rapid, in fact, since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has gradually moved towards modernization, especially in the military development, Japan's weapons and equipment are also very advanced. With the development of the economy and the increase of military strength, the ambitions of Japan at that time were increasingly inflated, and since then, it has once again set its sights on China.
After Japan tasted some sweetness in China, its boldness became bigger and bigger, and it even tried to invade northeast China and even East Asia. It is worth mentioning that in order to compete for interests in northeast China, Japan also launched a contradiction and conflict with Tsarist Russia, and finally fought a war in 1904.
When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in China, there was an American (named Douglas M. MacArthur) went with his father to northeast China, and Douglas. Who was MacArthur? Anyone who knows a little bit of American history may know that MacArthur was one of the most outstanding five-star generals in American history, and his admirers even considered MacArthur to be the greatest soldier in American history. But at this time. MacArthur was also a small captain officer. After coming to China, MacArthur conducted a detailed investigation of northeast China, in addition to traveling to East Asian countries.
In the end, MacArthur spent nearly eight months analyzing the situation in East Asian countries very thoroughly, and even boldly asserted that China and Russia would not pose a threat to the world in the future, and Japan's development would be unstoppable, and it was likely to become the biggest threat to the United States in the end. MacArthur's words were hard to believe. Of course, MacArthur's assertion was not unfounded, it turned out that when he investigated the Japanese military base, he found that Japan was a very ambitious country, and those Japanese soldiers were very belligerent, even close to madness, so that japan's strength development should not be underestimated.
Time has shown that MacArthur's assertion was not a joke, and that after Japan won one war after another, it even launched the Pacific War and directly declared war on the United States. In the Pacific War, the Americans also suffered the losses of the Japanese devils, and the casualties were also very heavy.