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[Marshal Mannerheim]

Ehhhhh. Britain had their hands full with Germany. The US Navy was a more pressing problem; that's where the whole "bomb Pearl Harbor to get enough breathing room to capture forward bases, and make taking them back so expensive as to negotiate decent peace terms" plan came from.

Really, if FDR hadn't been so anxious to provoke a war with Japan, I think they'd still be just fighting the Chinese by the time the UK and USSR, with US supplies if not troops, ground Hitler into dust.

Then maybe you end up with a China divided between Communist and "Democratic" spheres, with Imperial Japan "protecting" "Free China," and the Soviets treating a much-diminished Communist China as a satellite along the lines of Romania or Mongolia?

I need to plug these values into HOI3 and see what the scientific answer would be.

True, but the problem was that:
• the Co-Prosperity Sphere required territories that were French (Vietnam), British (Malaya, Hong Kong and maybe some bits of India) and American (Hawaii and the Phillipines) to work
• Britain and America wouldn't just give their colonies up
• the American and British navies could, combined, defeat the IJN.

Japan was never going to be able to defeat America and Britain, and should have either tried to pick Britain off first before doing anything along the lines of Pearl Harbour and bringing America into the war.

I honestly doubt that America would have joined in the war without a casus belli on the scale of Pearl Harbour anyways, but this isn't a history sperging thread and so I'll end the conversation here.

 

[Sped Xing]

Pearl Harbor was a bad idea. The Co-Prosperity Sphere was a bad idea. Getting involved in a land war in Asia is a classic blunder.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

The Co-Prosperity Sphere was a bad idea.

It was, to put it frankly, fucking retarded because it assumed Japan could defeat two British colonies and America at the same time.

 

[Sped Xing]

It was, to put it frankly, fucking retarded because it assumed Japan could defeat two British colonies and America at the same time.

B-b-but muh Yamato master race.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

 

[Furina]

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"The N Word"

Source is DeadTube, in case you were wondering.

 

[Hummingbird]

 

[Enola Straight]

 

[AnOminous]

Agreed. The only tech that would have made a big difference to the krauts would be thermal underwear before 1941.

Or some kind of super efficient version of the Fischer-Tropsch process (that we don't have even now).

 

[A Grey Cat]

border collie mixed with husky puppy, the best dog ever!

 

[Pina Colada]

 

[Devyn]

 

[Haffhart]

 

[Troutsmacked]

 

[Devyn]

 

[Curt Sibling]

B-b-but muh Yamato master race.

Atomic fission is true evidence of being superior.

 

[Meat Target]

 

[Nathan Higgers]

 

[Schauma mal]

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Akiyama had really a fucked up back.