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In some ways that is a sensible military solution.

Japan and Germany were capable of integration post WW2 because both were exhausted states.

The populace was so tired of death, famine, plague and war that they were happy to fundamentally change their ethos. Japan for the first time in its history stopped being militaristic, and Germany lost its nationalism (which is why the abundance of German flags at the recent World Cup was such a notable thing).

But that is a military solution, not an ethical solution. Television means that a country can not indiscriminately kill civilians to the point that they will accept any change, so long as the killing stops.

TV is the handbrake for politicians who would forego human rights.