Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "US Navy Construction in WW2 - The Ships Start Coming And They Don't Stop Coming" video.

  1. They should have BUT.... "The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. . .However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." "For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare." "militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. . .the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors." "the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death." -topical excerpts from Umberto Eco's 14 characteristics of Ur-Fascism They were cowards terrified of acknowledging their own relative weakness and drunk on their own propaganda that the US didn't have the stomach for a drawn out fight, so they refused to acknowledge the reality of their situation for a very long time until even many of them could no longer deny it. To Yamamoto's credit, for all his misplaced loyalties, he did not let his mind be consumed by the death cult that had so consumed his government and maintained the ability to make rational assessments of his situation....which of course we're ignored. And why wouldn't they ignore him? It's not like fascist governments actually care about their people, so sending them into a meat grinder is just part of their day job to them. It's easy to bet on longshots when you're betting the time, money, and lives of others instead of your own (at least if you have no conscience). So yeah, just like the US Civil War, they picked a fight they couldn't win and preferred stacking up the bodies of others over admitting they were wrong for as long as they could, which is not at all uncommon for authoritarians of any stripe. The longer they put off surrender, the longer they stayed in power.
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  2. Wise to know it was a bad idea, but naive to think his government would listen to reason. Unfortunately, this meant that all he managed to accomplish was to turn his government's foolish war into a longer, bloodier, and more expensive thing than it needed to be. For all the positive traits they may individually possess, misplacing their loyalties is the tragic flaw of men like Yamamoto which is unfortunate for them and everyone on both sides of any conflict they end up in.
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  3. Jokes aside, it's not that they thought they could outfight our production capacity in the long term. It's just that they thought the US had no fighting spirit and would just spinelessly fold if things got ugly enough. This is what happens when you drink the Kool aid.
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