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. Permalink Parent 1
SuppliceVI t1_iy2ibmz wrote
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.