Modern US medicine can deal with this easily- but it would have been a factor throughout most recorded history and pre-history. The second child and probably the mother would have died, discouraging exotic marital choices.

His arguement that Allied troops “murdered” Japanese wounded soldiers is oblivious to the fact that many of these poor, helpless soldiers had either been booby trapped or had booby trapped themselves and when Allied troops would attempt to come to their aid, they and the Japanese wounded were both killed. Reality, what a concept.

As for the Allied support of Stalin, sure Uncle Joe had blood on his hands but he kept Hitler busy on the Eastern Front taking pressure off of the Allies in the west. Believe it was LBJ that said “Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.” Again showing this novice’s misunderstanding of global politics.

That the Allies had “sunk to the same levels” as their enemies, come on, none of the Allies attacked any populace until after the same had been done to them. Whine about Dresden, look at London. How could they do Hiroshima, look at Honolulu.

Give it a rest. Read “Pearl Harbor” and understand that Japanese military students would rather die than disgrace their fellow students, more or less die at the hand of an Allied soldier.

Wake up and understand that there are some bad people out there and the only way to deal with them is to give them worse than they give you. Why do you think the police have guns?

Be prepared for the worst and hope for the best. However, should the worst come, be ready to deliver the next level.

Get out of your soft bed and look the potential disappearance of your life style in the face.

Read history and understand the people behind it. The Chamberain’s, the Churchills, the FDRs, the Hitlers, the Tojos, the Ceasars.

Sorry, not enough words to point out this persons foolish liberal interpretation of limited facts to attempt to make a leftist argument suggesting that all Western action is bad.

Please, be objective.

But this goes nowhere toward confirming the statement you quote. Less than nowhere: the Rh negative allele is quite rare in Chinese people, and so the second child of a Chinese mother and a European father is, if anything, less likely to have rh-related problems.

Maybe, just maybe, there are other interactions of genes and immune systems that will create trouble for the children of such a couple. But I think that Ferguson owes his readers some explanation, or citation, to back up this statement. (Nowadays some books have end notes that are keyed to the pages of the main text. does Ferguson use this system?)

Hang it all, in the United States there are thousands of marriages between women of Chinese descent and men of European descent. If they had “relatively high” chances of this kind of problem, wouldn’t we have heard about it?