Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Sarah Paine EP 3: How Mao Conquered China (Lecture \u0026 Interview)" video.

Lissen up, fella, if the training of America's officer corps is in the hands of people of her class, we can all breath a sigh of relief. She is really, really good stuff!
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@skydragon23101979 One the Hitler War was over in Europe, Russia would have turned on the spigot to Mao through Manchuria. Exhausted Britain would still have wanted Hong Kong back, so there's no knowing what to do with that branch of the hypothetical. The long short of it is, the democracies had the A-Bomb -- eventually, somewhere -- and Japan didn't. The Japanese A-Bomb program, set up in the Toei Theater Building in the Ginza, was going nowhere. If America had not come into the war, the A-Bomb project was also running in North Bay, Ontario, and would simply have been ramped up there instead of at Los Alamos. Remember the Manhattan Project was European brains, with some American additions but not a dominant fraction, running on American money.
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@tdn4773 Burma closed it down when the Japanese ordered them to. "The Hump," aka the Aluminum Highway, replaced it, at huge expense and sacrifice, but couldn't deliver the volume of materiel needed.
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@MrFruitPrimate Wrong, Fruitcake. If America had stayed chickenshit, i.e. if Pearl Harbour (Harbor, as some are trying to rename it) had not happened, the British would have developed the A-bomb in Canada, and that would have been that.
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