3/11 Did Japan ever have a chance of winning WWII?
\_ I don't know about Germany, but Japan really should have stopped
in 1931 and consolidated its gains of Korea and Manchuria. It
could've been 3 times its current size in area and population.
\_ If you can read some of the Japanese text, you will know that
the reason why Japanese continue to fight China is because
Japanese know very well that they can't consolidate their
gains in Manchuria unless China is fully subdued.
\_ yea, written by those same Japanese who thought they
could attack US and still win the war. The Japanese
warmongering militarists wrote that cause they need
war to advance their careers and keep them in power.
\_ Both sides underestimated each other. The US never thought
Japan would attack. Japan thought the US would roll over.
\_ I agree. But the American industrial machine would have
been to strong.
\_ They are not at war with the US, and not even with
China. War restarted with China in 1937 when Japan
invaded other parts of China.
\_ They had food, but they needed oil and rubber.
\_ Not if they didn't start another war with China by
invading in 1937. US is happily trading with Japan
until like a year before 1941?
\_ yup, selling scrap metals, oils, and all the good stuff
which fueled Japanese imperial army's machinary.
\_ i dont' understand this, why so many people on MOTD *WISH*
Japan has consolidated their conquest?
\_ motd full of crazy asian people. My car so haaaaa!
\_ I don't think wish is the key word.
\_ No. The Japanese wanted the US to accept their annexation of
southeast Asia, making them the major power of the Pacific. The US
would never have agreed to cede that region to Japan. The US had
claimed the Pacific as their ocean.
\_ Philippines was a US Colony. If Japan invades the Philippines,
it is declaring war on the US
\_ Wrong part of SE Asia. Think Indonesia. Oil and rubber. The
Japanese would never had touched US territories if the US
hadn't put the hammer down on trade. SE Asia had most of what
Japan had been trading for with the US.
\_ skipping the Philippines and Taiwan to get to
Indonesia is strange. Indonesia is south of
the Philippines.
\_ Yes, you are correct. Lesson time! US no trade -> Japan
must find other oil -> Oil in SE Asia -> Japan knows US
not let Japan get oil -> Japan invade PI, maybe Hawaii
to scare US -> Japan screw up in Hawaii -> US eventually
kick Japan ass. |
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