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To: BenLurkin

“Is the Sudentanland worth a war?

Why die for Danzig?”


They weren’t worth a war, as far as the USA was concerned. Oahu was, but it was attacked by the Japanese. Germany, led by a man with the strategic sense of a block of wood, and which was already at war with the Britsh Empire and the Soviet Union, decided to declare war on the USA as well. Smart move ... NOT!


29 posted on 12/13/2013 8:08:34 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: steelhead_trout

“They weren’t worth a war, as far as the USA was concerned. Oahu was...”

Well....no, not Oahu, China. You ignore the oil embargo that drove the Japanese attack in the first place. Despite being warned very clearly by the Japanese that an embargo was their red line for war, the USA decided that China was worth a war with Japan and imposed the embargo. It’s a strange reversal from the situation today.

Sudentanland and Danzig, indeed.


38 posted on 12/13/2013 1:45:01 PM PST by Owl558 (Those who remember George Santayana are doomed to repeat him)
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