{"id":72799,"date":"2026-08-12T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72799\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:37:08","slug":"readers-view-iran-today-is-like-wwii-japan-duluth-news-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/72799\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader&#8217;s View: Iran today is like WWII Japan &#8211; Duluth News Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now the decline of mankind is due to high-tech warfare and our climate, as the two are so entangled.<\/p>\n<p>As the planet warms, things dry out and electrical storms ignite fires. These fires not only burn trees and organic ground matter; they release many chemicals that are then deposited in the forests by the jet stream. The air can be more toxic because of chemical pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, oil and its related products are the biggest contributors to pollution. The war in Iran is for and about oil and who profits from it. Weapons of mass destruction are the weaponized scare tactic used to terrorize today\u2019s population and used to support ongoing global wars.<\/p>\n<p>As Iran\u2019s military infrastructure is removed from its ability to coerce neighboring nations like Israel, are we prepared nationally to be the replacement target? We can totally remove the military infrastructure within Iran\u2019s local chaotic political regime, but let\u2019s face the reality that one suitcase atom bomb smuggled into an East Coast city would counter all the military systems removed.<\/p>\n<p>Payback can be harsh, as Iran\u2019s ideology is hardwired into its people\u2019s reason to live and belief that God is behind them, regardless of their nation\u2019s destructive policies regarding the life of the planet, including themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This ideology is very similar to World War II and Japan\u2019s belief that it was superior to all others. Look how that turned out back then. I wonder, today, are global governments more preoccupied with external issues while ignoring protecting the national problems, as once promised?<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hadley<\/p>\n<p>Danbury, Wis.<\/p>\n<p>To submit a letter <\/p>\n<p>Email submissions to: <a class=\"Link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/letters\/mailto:letters@duluthnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">letters@duluthnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Include a full name, address and daytime phone number. Only names and hometowns will be published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right now the decline of mankind is due to high-tech warfare and our climate, as the two are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2574,14,8,33,46890,1018],"class_list":["post-72799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-climate-change","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-nihon","tag-readers-view","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}