Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "The World Takes Advantage of American Isolationism | BETWEEN 2 WARS | 1933 part 3 of 3" video.

That's exactly what the Japanese said about the Panay! (Hope you didn't drop any bombs on Indy during those 19 minutes.)
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They did, although everybody cheated a bit on the tonnage. They also played some other games with the treaty like building the Mogami-class heavy cruisers with 6" guns so they'd be classified as light cruisers, which weren't restricted by the treaty, but also designing the 8" gun turrets with which they replaced the 6" turrets as soon as the treaty expired (or if war broke out before then).
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I'm guessing the lawsuits after someone fell off killed it as a ride concept.
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As in 1945, the people had just finished one long, agonizing war and were in no mood to jump right into another. Not to mention they would have had the same problem the US faced much later in Vietnam, the lack of any remotely competent or honest government as an alternative to the Communists.
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@TimeGhost It's fine as long as you send most of your time in a hole in the ground and the chief danger is nasty stuff falling into the hole. Not so great once the war moved out of the trenches and the nasty stuff came at you from every direction. It also had the virtue of being cheap to manufacture since you could just stamp it out of a single piece of sheet metal.
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Our president had these silly ideas about self-determination and not trading countries and the people in them like kids trade baseball cards.
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Still a dumb move for Germany. Their ability to take the war to the US was minuscule compared to the Americans' ability to hurt Germany.
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@dragosstanciu9866 Ukraine is part of Europe, you know.
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Troy Staunton By "the world" you mean the UK and a few of the Commonwealth countries. Other than that "the world's" contribution to those wars was mostly token. In Korea, for example, the UK was the only country other than the US and South Korea that contributed as much as 1% of the total fighting force. In Vietnam, not even that. It's also worth noting that you characterize all of those as "America's wars" when most of them weren't any such thing, they were wars in which America went to the aid of a friendly country that had been attacked by another country. But the world is so used to assuming that Big Daddy America will come to their rescue when they're attacked and can't defend themselves that people like you have come to think that is somehow a favor the rest of the world does for America rather than a sacrifice America makes for the rest of the world.
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