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[MossRoad]

That's a matter of semantics. Yes, there was no way victory was in their future. But we were still looking at multiple millions of lives lost, and likely over 10 million total casualties, to make that defeat official. The bombs were our best means of avoiding all that.

Or, once the Japanese were forced back to Japan, the US could have just blockaded the Japanese islands and continuously bombed the ports and industry into submission VS an invasion. They had no steel or oil to speak of at the time. That was the driving reason for their aggressiveness in the first place.

 

[LouNY]

Or, once the Japanese were forced back to Japan, the US could have just blockaded the Japanese islands and continuously bombed the ports and industry into submission VS an invasion. They had no steel or oil to speak of at the time. That was the driving reason for their aggressiveness in the first place.

Go back to school or better yet put on a uniform for few years.

 

[Alan46]

They had no steel or oil to speak of at the time. That was the driving reason for their aggressiveness in the first place.

Or, once the Japanese were forced back to Japan, the US could have just blockaded the Japanese islands and continuously bombed the ports and industry into submission VS an invasion. They had no steel or oil to speak of at the time. That was the driving reason for their aggressiveness in the first place.

Thanks for the history lesson.
I don’t think I ever knew that!

 

[drssg]

I dated a Japanese girl in college, and the subject of WWII somehow came up. I was curious about what Japanese history classes teach about WWII, so I asked her why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

She said, "There was no reason. We just attacked." That seems overly simplified to me, but I haven't heard much about the oil and steel industry in Hawaii.

When one man has absolute authority over a country, and he is considered to be their god, I can see how he would start to think that he deserves more. It doesn't really matter whether he has a rational justification or just an overly inflated view of his importance, IMO.

 

[masscity]

I dated a women in CA, originally from Germany. Her Dad was a soldier in the German Army in WWII.

He told her that if those damn Americans would have stayed out of the war they would have won.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I dated a women in CA, originally from Germany. Her Dad was a soldier in the German Army in WWII.

He told her that if those damn Americans would have stayed out of the war they would have won.

My reply would have been won what? Take over the world, elimination of Jews and proliferation of the Aryan race, under the leadership of a schizophrenic.

 

[ultrarunner]

Russia???

 

[Alan46]

I dated a Japanese girl in college, and the subject of WWII somehow came up. I was curious about what Japanese history classes teach about WWII, so I asked her why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

She said, "There was no reason. We just attacked." That seems overly simplified to me, but I haven't heard much about the oil and steel industry in Hawaii.

When one man has absolute authority over a country, and he is considered to be their god, I can see how he would start to think that he deserves more. It doesn't really matter whether he has a rational justification or just an overly inflated view of his importance, IMO.

I agree 100%!