Comments by "NSResponder" (@NSResponder) on "Why History Overlooks How Much the Japanese Actually Feared the Americans in WW2" video.

  1. Japan's defeat was inevitable, and if they'd caught the carriers in port on December 7, it would have bought them another year at the most. They had no hope of overcoming the sheer weight of the USA's industrial capacity, and their sneak attack fully motivated the USA to accept nothing less than total defeat of Japan.
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  2. Japanese "soldiers" were owed no quarter, because 1) they started the war with a treacherous sneak attack, and 2) they ignored the Geneva convention and routinely starved, tortured, and murdered POWs and civilians alike. If they got some of their own treatment back at the hands of US marines, tough shit. Cry me a river.
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