>>>>>>You can militarily defeat a nation amd if it is backed up with nation-building... things can work out. See Japan and Germany. The US nuked Japan and the US and Japan have a pretty cozy relationship now.
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>>>>>Have you got a modern times example of an AGGRESSOR nation winning a war and then having a cozy relationship with the people vanquished?
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>>>>It is kind of interesting that you pose your question in a way that it is unanswerable since agressor nations would be less disposed to nation building.
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>>>The question I posed is answerable, but at the expense of your statement (which I challenged by the question).
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>>Here it is The Philippine-American War. US was the agressor. Upon defeat of the Philipine army, the US proceeded to nation build, guide it to democracy and independence.
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines#History
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>Hmmm, 2 sentences to cover 34 years. Who knows what went on during that time?
>And what does it say about the state of the Philippines post-war? Maybe they were in a sorry state.
>Finally, it was one occupier, then another. A little different than a free country occupied and "built". I also didn't see any mention of "nation building".
>A weak example.

I'll take that as your way of accepting that I've disproved your statement.