The person you're afraid of conquering you not liking that you're trying to defend yourself against conquest is not an argument against doing that.

The strange and ironic thing here is that the subject and object of this statement can be either country.

My wife is from Manchuria and my father is from Singapore. As much as my wife and I like the Japan of today, Japan appeared less favourably in our family history.

I don't think anything in their post said otherwise. I assumed they were just adding more evidence on to what the previous commenter was saying.