Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Viking Naval Combat - A saga of dragonships (ft. Matt Easton)" video.

  1.  @tripducey3076  The treaties after WWI, rather than WWII? the appeal of the treaty was that no-one really wanted to get into another naval building race, partly due to their debt overhang from WWI. Nothing really happened if someone broke or left the treaty system. Japan gave notice in 1934 that it would leave the treaty system when First London, which Japan signed, expired at the end of 36. France broke First London when it laid down Richelieu and Jean Bart. but signed Second London anyway. Italy did not sign Second London, because of the criticism of it's invasion of Ethiopia. The only consequence in any of the treaties for anyone dropping out was tripping the gun size escalator clause in Second London, that stipulated that, if any power that had signed the previous treaties did not sign Second London, maximum gun size would go back to 16" from the 14" that Second London stipulated. As Japan had given notice two years earlier it would not sign, it was a certainty the clause would be triggered. The tonnage escalator was much more vague. It stipulated that if any power not in the treaty system built a ship that exceeded treaty limits, the parties to the treaty would negotiate an appropriate increase in treaty limits. As soon as the US and UK discovered how much material was being ordered for Yamato, making it clear it would exceed treaty limits, they started negotiating the tonnage limit increase.
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