Message from @Weez
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And they know this, a primary reason they wouldn't engage in the former action to begin with.
Their logical choice would be a terrorist attack through surrogates or a land grab.
They simply failed to do that.
Indeed, Wizard, exactly what I referenced earlier as asymmetrical conflict.
Russia could easily do either of those with low blow back.
They do it all the time.
Just look at how we handled 9/11.
The target was battleships and more importantly the carriers which where not there
Like FDR planned it <:hyperthink:462282519883284480>
Hush-hush; no war with the Federation and let them have their economic recovery.
8 BB designated ships
2 CA
6 CL
That it was, @jacovich stabs.
China would probably be the only country to sustain an operation large enough to equal a modern pearl harbor.
My uncle commanded the ship that destroyed the Kirishima. đ
*Pulls out the family history book*
Yeah no carriers as far as can tell
They were all moved away.
Battleships where becoming outdated by that time
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Lets say you manage to wipe out the entirety of the US navy and for the sake of argument the US can't create anymore ships.
It still doesn't look even remotely attractive for Japan to enter into war with a superpower like the US. There's just no way in hell they would have come out on top.
Whatâs name of that squadron of destroyers and escort carriers that took on a battleship group lead by the âbiggest battleship ever builtâ?
That's an absurd scenario, Jaco.
Right, because the japanese would never have been able to cripple their navy anyway so pearl harbour was irrational.
It does if you can secure your heavily utilized supply routes..
And you can remove a power from your sphere of influence
Then simply sue for peace..
It was the last clash of the dreadnought class of ships.
The Japanese were stuck on a path of expansion to fuel their growing economy, war was inevitable @jacovich stabs
https://youtu.be/Wmm9OlNoIsc Here it is
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/70000-ton-disaster-how-biggest-battleship-ever-built-committed-suicide-51932
```At 0800 hours on April 7, scout planes from Admiral Mitscherâs Fast Carrier Force, or Task Force 58, located Yamato, still only halfway to Okinawa. Mitscher launched a massive strike force of 280 fighters, bombers and torpedo planes, and the fight was on. For two hours, the Surface Special Attack Force was subjected to a merciless aerial bombardment. The air wings of eleven fleet carriers joined in the attackâso many planes were in the air above Yamato that the fear of midair collision was real. The naval aviators were in such a hurry to score the first hit on the allegedly unsinkable ship plans for a coordinated attack collapsed into a free-for-all. Yamato took two hits during this attack, two bombs and one torpedo, and air attacks claimed two escorting destroyers...```
Yeah but war being inevitable doesn't make their thing rational. If anything they were just forced into it by the logical progression of their ideology, as you said. But that ideology proved suicidal for them, not rational.
The strike itself, was rational though.
The timing as well.
HAH