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Originally posted by Dervish Well if they were bailing us out then they wouldn't have waited till they were attacked and forced to join us rather than for altruistic reasons?

But they didn't really wait. They were neutral on paper, and they didn't send any actual troops in, but they did a hell of a job supplying you with all sorts of cargo you despreately needed. They didn't do that for Germany back in 1940. Even if Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbor, they would have still probably come to your aid. Besides, Japan didn't attack the US for no reason. You don't attack strong neutral countries for no reason when you're already busy fighting several other major players.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 But they didn't really wait. They were neutral on paper, and they didn't send any actual troops in, but they did a hell of a job supplying you with all sorts of cargo you despreately needed.

Yeah they did supply stuff.... at a price we got nothing free.

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You don't attack strong neutral countries for no reason when you're already busy fighting several other major players.

Emmm ok.... you do realise that Japan wasn't in the war until it attacked the US?

Also realise that at that time Britian wasn't just the little island it is now it had an empire including India a country of 1 Billion at the time.

(sorry this has turned into a total hi-jack)

EDIT: >other thread on this-a good one<

And remeber with us being an island and the RAF being better than the Luftwaffe (as proved by the Battle of Britian) the presumtion that we would have lost without US (Japan wouldn't have been involved) is incorect. As air cover would be an absolute necessity for an invasion.

Last edited by Dervish on Jun-04-2005 at 17:32