"The sun and the orbit of the earth???"That was just my unclear...

"The sun and the orbit of the earth???"

That was just my unclear analogy. A likely scenario is that in billions of years the Sun will transform into a red giant star and the Earth will find itself absorbed into the Sun. So its possible in time, both Oz and Earth will be absorbed into the orbit of 'red giants'.

I wouldn't say the comparison of Japanese cruelty against us compares to that against the Chinese. All of it hideous but the Nanking Massacre was next level.

"as I sit at my computer, in 2020, not 1942, I would have one eye on what the "consequences" of what I type may have, one day, on me and or my family, not "many many generations hence".

Well, the best protection you have will be to enjoy your freedom of speech - even our second rate version in Oz. The less of us who bother, even diametrically opposed, the more fragile it becomes.