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		ux266478 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'inva... While true, the US did actually invade Imperial Japan. They captured nearly all the Ryukyu islands before the atomic bombings.

terminalshort 14 days ago [–]

Yes, that's an invasion! And the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands during WWII. Taking even a barely inhabited frozen rock by force is an invasion. Has nothing to do with the scale of destruction.

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