SuppliceVI t1_iy2ibmz wrote on November 28, 2022 at 6:22 AM

Reply to comment by TotallyInOverMyHead in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

It would have slowed the war by at best a few months.

Japanese industry was basically non-existent, and US industry generated a Naval force that multitudes stronger than Japan's in very short time.

Japan was entirely in over their heads and even if the entirety of the US Navy was lost, the end result would have been the same.

Drs83 t1_iy64qks wrote on November 29, 2022 at 12:57 AM

Some people don't realize just how much larger the US navy was in 1945 than the Japanese navy ever was. It was around a 4 to 1 ratio of major combat surface ships (carriers, destroyers, cruisers, etc) in favor of the United States. That's not accounting for the merchant fleet which was closer to a 10 to 1 ratio.