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There is a different solution, akin to Dem Taqat's peaceful policy. It is of my opinion that we should build up our military to levels akin to that of an invasion force, but use it only if France decides that it would like to see the tricolour flying over Kyoto. We must weaken them by denying them land to expand to! We must open up our frontiers and let the settlers pour through, and clog the ground so much that the French have no choice but to sit on their haunches.
So, you're calling for a settler race. You're actively going to provoke the French to starting a war?
We must preserve peace - this is a truth. It is something that we must hold dearly... "Those that live by the sword, die by the sword." A powerful military will deter attack from France. While they are a threat we cannot ignore, we must maintain the moral high ground. We must not be the aggressor's in this case - what will the world think of us? What will our PEOPLE think of us? If we send their fathers, brothers, uncles... friends, off to die in a foreign land, for a war we started? Wait for them to come to us. Settle the land before they can get their greedy fingers on it. We will maintain the moral high ground, and we will maintain Japanese dominance in our glorious and fertile land.
Morality has no place in international politics. On the domestic side, it is immoral to even give the French the ability to strike at Japan.
Let us fight a defensive war, and then turn to the offense, rather than fight an offensive war, and see our people revolt against us.
So, you say you do not want fathers, brothers, and uncles to die in a foreign land but you believe that letting a war reach the mothers, sisters, the aunts, and children is right? There is no such thing as a defensive war starting that doesn't start on the defender's soil. You're going to put Japan's children in danger simply so sate your own conscious.