Context: I feel most of these are self-explanatory or common knowledge, especially the one about WMD. So I’m just going to explain the last one.
After the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu spared Toyotomi Hideyori, the son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He even married his granddaughter to him to establish a lasting peace. At first, it seemed well. But things quickly turned around the 1610s, when Ieyasu started getting suspicious of Hideyori and his motives. Especially with his mother, Lady Chacha, hostile towards the Tokugawa Regime.
Things came to a head in 1614, with the construction of bronze bell in Kyoto. One of the phrases was “Kokka ankō” meaning “the country and the house, peace and tranquility.” However, Ieyasu took this as an insult, thinking it was intended as a curse on him for the character 安 (an, “peace”) was placed between the two characters composing his own name 家康 (“ka-kō”, “house tranquility”), suggesting subtly perhaps that peace could only be attained by Ieyasu’s dismemberment.
Though, that as merely a pretext, and Ieyasu just wanted to get rid of the Toyotomi Clan. This would lead to the Sieges of Osaka and the end of the Toyotomi Clan and the end of the Sengoku Jidai
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W Bush also said “After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad.” Which is 100% true and a better justification than trying to use a UNSC resolution from years earlier.
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Context: I feel most of these are self-explanatory or common knowledge, especially the one about WMD. So I’m just going to explain the last one.
After the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu spared Toyotomi Hideyori, the son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He even married his granddaughter to him to establish a lasting peace. At first, it seemed well. But things quickly turned around the 1610s, when Ieyasu started getting suspicious of Hideyori and his motives. Especially with his mother, Lady Chacha, hostile towards the Tokugawa Regime.
Things came to a head in 1614, with the construction of bronze bell in Kyoto. One of the phrases was “Kokka ankō” meaning “the country and the house, peace and tranquility.” However, Ieyasu took this as an insult, thinking it was intended as a curse on him for the character 安 (an, “peace”) was placed between the two characters composing his own name 家康 (“ka-kō”, “house tranquility”), suggesting subtly perhaps that peace could only be attained by Ieyasu’s dismemberment.
Though, that as merely a pretext, and Ieyasu just wanted to get rid of the Toyotomi Clan. This would lead to the Sieges of Osaka and the end of the Toyotomi Clan and the end of the Sengoku Jidai
W Bush also said “After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad.” Which is 100% true and a better justification than trying to use a UNSC resolution from years earlier.
https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/27/bush.war.talk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_cruise_missile_strikes_on_Iraq