So like, obviously it's fair to still be mad about the Armenian genocide or fall of the USSR. So I'm more looking for little things most people ignore but You're hung up on for one reason for another.
I.e, my salt would be
● EA buying the developer of dungeon keeper and turning it into a crappy mobile game (I know someone made their own version like the old ones but still)
●In fact actually just the fact that big studios bought up a bunch of immersive Sim IPs and then killed them, either remaking them worse of draining them of all their original charm (Deus Ex, thief, prey*
I know prey got a good remake but that was 90% unrelated to the original prey and Bethesda got that by specifically killing the company making prey despite the fact that they had a functioning product)
●Subscription services being everywhere
● JJ Abrams in general and his stupid mystery box specifically
●Disney in general, and that their live action remakes are such a hit despite being so garbage
● The really annoyingly pervasive idea that a writer is in conflict with their reader and needs to beat them/not care about them (i.e, Emil Pagliarulo's paper airplanes, Steven Moffats obession with besting the audience in his Sherlock remake, Alex Aster's obsession with trying to make sure people won't predict her twists in her Lightlark series, etc.)
●The fact that I'm always told to "just use uber" when I say I don't like having to drive when it's both stupid expensive and the company is the bane of my existence
●Philanthropy
(Yes part of this post was just me venting, sorry)
I would need primary source evidence for this, but if there aren't primary sources then it's obviously false.
However, if there are, I still disagree with the interpretation. I doubt it was some realpolitik scheme (entirely) to do this. It was more likely that if china did not engage the Japanese now, China would be conquered by the pen, rather than by the gun. Han Suyin (biographer of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai) talks in an interview about how Chiang was often very apprehensive about fighting japan. In all seriousness Chiang needed to be captured and have his head put to a chopping block for him to agree to the chinese united front. So, again assuming the basic information presented is true, it is more likely that Stalin encouraged the fight now. Also remember that the Japanese and Soviets were engaged in broader border skirmishes. Considering the value of the siberian (for some reason this said liberian, i hate auto correct) troops during the great patriotic war, Japan not being able to invade the previously take far Easterm areas was extremely important for the people of the world.