Damn, what a crazy twist

It does actually make sense though. The only thing that doesn't is how the professor would've known these rumors when even people on the Sakura council don't, and those rumors would've been after he got expelled from the academy.
some students now ask us quite seriously if there was a war between Japan and the US and which side won
I 100% believe that, Japanese textbooks have some crazy revisionism, and from what I've seen it feels like they teach kids that Japan got nuked by America but not really about the context why. Add to that the white worship Japan has now, and yeah, very realistic.