- 26 Oct 2011 06:49
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Yes. When I had first learned of all this, I was so mortified by the possibilities that existed. But it can't be helped.
The thing is, when people are getting all into relating the story of the Second World War and celebrating it and all that, what can you even do? It's like the popular conception of what happened and how, is so different from what we know actually was going on, but it's impossible to tell them.
There is no emoticon that can capture it, so I'll use a gif. This was basically the same as my expression every UK Remembrance day:
"Alone."
pikachu wrote:Let's also recall that if there was to be any confrontation between the UK and US in 1930s, Japan would inevitably be on the British side. Which is why there was specifically a plan Red-Orange, for war against the UK and Japan at the same time. Keeping in mind the Naval treaty proportions (5-5-3 for US-UK-Japan), the USN would be at a disadvantage in size, especially if the UK manages to bring France on its side which I think is very plausible because the British and French interests during this period mostly overlapped. So if the UK found a reason to confront the Americans, the French would probably find one too. Would the US be able to make allies in this? Idk, perhaps Weimar Germany. But either way, the states which signed the Five-Power Treaty were the only ones with any navy to speak of. I would expect the USN to be able to defend the coastline from invasions, but not be a significant factor in disrupting the British shipping... at least for a while.
Yes. When I had first learned of all this, I was so mortified by the possibilities that existed. But it can't be helped.
The thing is, when people are getting all into relating the story of the Second World War and celebrating it and all that, what can you even do? It's like the popular conception of what happened and how, is so different from what we know actually was going on, but it's impossible to tell them.
There is no emoticon that can capture it, so I'll use a gif. This was basically the same as my expression every UK Remembrance day:
"Alone."