Message from @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck
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Battleships where becoming outdated by that time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.
What’s name of that squadron of destroyers and escort carriers that took on a battleship group lead by the “biggest battleship ever built”?
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 Mitscher’s 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 attack—so 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
I'd say it was a "good try". Maybe rational in the context of "the best they could do" but actually doing it was suicide.
Recommend the video and the rest of series if you can find it
*"Yamato has reached nearly mythical status, a perfect example of Japan’s fascination with doomed, futile heroics."*
BEEEEENZAI
Meanwhile, the fascination with Japanese anime and feminization continues its march across the West.
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```Regardless of the provenance of the quote, Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the United States. Moreover, he seemed later to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been a blunder strategically, morally, and politically—even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. It is recorded that "Yamamoto alone" (while all his staff members were celebrating) spent the day after Pearl Harbor "sunk in apparent depression"```
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Well I guess the writing was on the wall.
He later got shot down I believe
Yeah
IIRC we intercepted some transmissions that stated where he'd be
or at least what plane he'd be in
(maybe both)
I like how we cracked their code before the war started
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"The information provided by the British delegation was subject to carefully vetted security procedures, and contained some of the greatest scientific advances made during the war. The shared technology included radar (in particular the greatly improved cavity magnetron which the American historian James Phinney Baxter III later called "the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores")"
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The emperor before hirohito was called yoshihito. Yoshi ruled Japan
Hey guys today is completely-misinterpret-what-Trump-says-day, aka every day <:slurpgon:583424900732157956>
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1171232004857323520/video/1