Comments by "Joe Swanson" (@joeswanson733) on "Could a single modern Japanese destroyer change the outcome of 1942 Battle of Midway?" video.

  1. well admiral nimitz would be amused they named a ship after him
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  2. the only way you could convince imperail japan to give up its course of war is you would need to go straight up to the emperor and show them page by page what happens through the entirety of the war and they lose. the emperror is the only one that wasn't b*tshit insane. because im thinking even if you go to the admiralty or the generals they may or may not believe it, it's just their pride is too big to accept anything else. only types like generals kuribayashi or admiral yamamoto would've been like i told you so. think about it war boils down to attrition at the most basic level. us has number to spare japan doesn't i think the war in china already would've been proof enough that the chinese even though they don't got your numbers of weapons or training or tech can still bog you down. look at the nazis in russia same thing.
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  3. it would be even better if ww2 japan got a modern day japan SDF battle group with carrier and everything
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  4.  @LtZetarn  noe he's not a us army graduate. yamamoto graduated from the japan version of annapolis. he graduated from their version of naval command college. he just spent some years in the US as a naval attache in washington dc. he travelled around and toured the us gain some insight. but that kind of insight would've helped. it's like in letters of iwo jima. where kuribayashi asked his generals do you know how many cars america makes in a year? and the generals were like no.
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  5. it would be intersting if china allied itself with the hiterl and japan was on the side of hte allies.
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  6. when in doubt always support the country
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  7. maybe there's a workaround who knows
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  8. japanese people during ww2 (especially the ones that worked in intelligence) didn't speak english?
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  9. it's all about who sees the other side first and the first to spot the other side dictattes the course of battle. in the real timeline the US saw the japanese force first. and the us knew the japanese were coming. intelligence is very important. a lot of the older japanese folks are saying that losing ww2 is good and bad in some ways. japan has lost a big chunk of its cultural identity and national heritage. but they gained somethings like better economy, or better standard of living for the masses, technological improvements. so it's a trade off.
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  10. this time around not possible. china could go to toe to toe with japan or at least it would be close. not as lopsided like in ww2. that would be a epic clash a 2023 china vs a 2023 japan in a neutral area.
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  11. it would be useless in this scenario and you would need to swap it with something
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