Being conquered is not necessarily detrimental to a nation; when conquered by more civilized countries, it enters a new stage of development and becomes a civilized people.
In modern times, after West Germany, Japan, and South Korea were occupied by the United States, they finally shed barbaric militarism and truly embarked on the path of constitutional democracy.
By contrast, the tragedy of a nation is exemplified by the many countries conquered by Soviet Russia after World War II. The gap between East and West Germany, visible in the 1980s, and the gap between North and South Korea, apparent today, are precisely the enormous disparities created when different civilizations conquer people from the same country.
Consider the cases of Germany and Japan, administered by Western democracies after WWII. It was precisely through the forceful transformation imposed by the American occupation that militaristic Germany and Japan embarked on the path of constitutional democracy, integrating into the mainstream of global development and becoming essential members of the world’s dominant civilizations.
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