Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

UK is still a power.
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It ensures that the likes of Australia is safe from Russia.
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You have to understand that many of these academics have modern political agendas. Many are trying to blame the US for the war and so on.
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It would not have matter if the Japanese had of completely levelled Pearl Harbour they were never going to be able to defeat the US economy. The US was the only economy and still is the only economy to have a complete economic top to bottom approach meaning it is completely independent and can supply everything for it self. The US produced nearly 100,000 aircraft for the pacific theatre and could have produced far more if it desired. The US produced nearly 90% of aircraft produced during the period of WW2 and could have increased that production output if they desired.
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US nuclear weapons were completely built in the US. Very few people had knowledge of them even the generals did not know they existed.
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Japan attacked because it was delusional in its thinking just as the Nazis were delusional in their invasion of France.
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SO are you saying the US was responsible for the actions of Japan?
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US industry is private meaning they are owned by people. Hence why they sell their products. And the UK got a very special deal out of it. No other country got that deal.
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The UK Is very difficult to invade and the only country that could do it would be the US and the US is not going to be invading the UK. The real purpose of the UK having nuclear weapons is to ensure that any country that would intend using them against the UK would get them in return.
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The US did not know exactly where Japan was going to attack because technology was not sophisticated or detailed in that era to know the exact location of the attack if they were even going to attack at all.
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Damage yes cripple no.
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The US gave the Russians over 20,000 tanks, over 20,000 aircraft, over 400,000 vehicles, machines for the factories, industrial components, food, specialized materials and so on. That was the reason why the Russian military that was defeated was able to them gather them self up and start a counter offensive. There is a lot of mythology about the war that the US culture has helped to become prominent such as Russia winning the war and so on.
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The Germans did the exact same thing. They actually beat the Russia military and had more or less had a successful invasion of Russia. There problem was that they also decided to take over all of Europe and declare war on the US. The US economy after the Russians were defeated supplied them with over 400,000 vehicles, 20,000 aircraft, millions of tons of aid, machines for factories, material supplies and specialized goods. That enabled the Russians to then have a counter offensive after they were defeated. The Germans could have just focused on Russia and the west would not have interfered at that point. The moral of the message is that mad men are not logical.
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Nope. They developed nothing of the sort but were trying to pursue nuclear weapons but their leadership was so clueless that they really never took it seriously.
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There was no series of actions that is one of the biggest modern academic myths that was put out there. Japan wanted to conquer the world and they started with the pacific and in doing that they intended to target the US. Australia was part of their plans as well.
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They both had their advantages and disadvantages.
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Yamamoto plan did not work.
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@Big Blue People need to stop with stupid complex theories. The Philippines is 8000 km from Hawaii.
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Anglo Saxon And how would the Japanese Navy invade the US exactly?
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Oh god what nonsense.
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@irockthehollowbodies "directing US policies to drive Japan toward war with the US "
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The US had put over 100,000 aircraft into the pacific and was starting to increase production beyond that. The US was about to direct its european theatre of war resources towards Japan and it would have meant their complete and utter destruction and could have ended with over half the population being dead. One US test run air raid killed over 400,000 Japanese before it was decided to use atomic weapons.
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Japan always intended to start war.
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Mad men tend to do crazy things that are not logical.
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I think once it was shown that US nuclear weapons secrets had been leaked to the Russians it made sense for the UK to have them or for the US to help them.
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The key to nuclear weapons' is not how large the warhead is but how accurate the system of navigation is and how reliable their rocket mechanical technology is. There is no point having a nuclear warhead if it cannot be delivered. There is also the other problem of how good the mechanics of the warheads are. Also it is very complex trying to get a nuclear warhead to actually detonate at ground level and much easier to carry out atmosphere detonation which is nowhere near as effective.
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The put on embargos because the Japanese were acting as tyrants.
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@davidbarnwell_virtual_clas6729 It did not matter what Yamamoto wanted or did not want. Japan attacked the US and from that point onwards was never going to win. It did not matter how much damage they did to Pearl Harbor. They lost and that was the end of it.
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Yeah, I said it That makes no sense at all. They attacked the US because they thought they could defeat the US plain and simple. Even a simple person with no deep knowledge would know that the moment they attacked the US it was always going to be an all out war. Actions like attacking the US always will have consequences.
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The problem was japan could never actually win.
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@hc3657 Like the Nazi's they had no intention of being strategic and sensible they wanted everything.
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The P-51 Mustang would wipe the floor with both of them.
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@kurmis999 The Manhattan project started in 1942 D Day happened in 1944.
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@Dave-hu5hr The US fought jungle warfare against the Vietcong in Vietnam and killed about 2.5 million with about 30,000 to 50,000 US deaths. The US bloodied them so much that the Vietcong surrendered at the Paris Peace talks. Then the US does what it has done on several occasions it pulls out in a political move even though the battles had been won. Here is the thing the US did not fight total war against the Vietcong.
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That is not even close to being true. The Manhattan project was completely a US project.
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Nuclear weapons could be neutralized by technology at some point. Who really knows were and what will be developed or may have already been developed.
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@Dave-hu5hr We have no idea what sorts of atmosphere research has taken place so we just do not know what is possible. A nuclear weapon is a mechanical system and who is to say what sorts of external effects could interfere with that mechanism. Maybe there is some sort of system that could enable an early detonation so that it cannot reach its target. We just do not know is the thing.
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@Anglo_Saxon1 We are assuming that there is no means of defence systems either disrupting the pathway of the missile, interfering with the mechanical control systems of the nuclear detonation or some other really exotic means of interference. Maybe there is some sort of advance laser tracking system that means it can easily be targeted even when it is in orbit. Maybe they use other nuclear weapons to detonate within its path so that they do not need to be super accurate and make a direct hit.
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It is easier said than done.
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Japan had lost the game even before it began and it was not well thought out by Japan. When a country is a leader such as the US was starting to become at that point they became target number one.
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There was no strategy the Japanese could make that would enable them to defeat the US and there was no right movement or decision they could make that would allow them to win. There efforts were always doomed and the same with Nazi Germany.
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"western imperialism" That is a nice fantasy that you have there.
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The moment they made any sort of attack on the US was the moment they declared war.
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Neil Kinnock that tried to start a union level rebellion was trained in the Karl Marx University. Yet the media would never talk about this.
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Both countries used the US model of market economies to grow their markets. That created the unprecedented growth they experienced. Nazis were socialists as where the Japanese imperial government before WW2 meaning it was impossible for them to copy the market economy of the US.
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The P51 was a better aircraft than the Spitfire as it was faster and could operate over longer distances but the Spitfire was a perfectly honed tool for Britain and it did exactly what they wanted it to do.
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