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I find it hard to bridge the interpretative gap between us that would turn the Yukio Mishima coded organization as a real alternative to Redeker. Even without explicitly invoking the japanese version of godwin's law " Having a Red Zone survive and get anime levels of good at killing zacks" ain't a true policy deviation nor quite a psychological one from America interpretation

I would have personally picked the China arc. The whole conflict of the rebellion and ethnics driving the defection is a straight out opposition to the broad strokes of Redeker. Which makes the author injection of the rebels implementation at the end bizarre and undermines a lot of trust in me in terms of my reading of it.

Edit: I get the attempt of a Von Braun situation but the execution still breaks credibility in my eyes. The caveat of Identity loss doesn't fully sell the moral snowflakeness(or if that's part of the unreliable narrator selling which part of it was unreliable) of the character and the chessey Mandela endorsement.

The second issue and that post-covid....the broad strokes of the plan just by itself isn't really that unthinkable to me. It's just uncomfortable triage....it's sucks to think about but not really "Sanity-breaking that could only be barely be come up by planners of racist atrocites" bad .

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