Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32272607-20191218202400/@comment-35614398-20191219064642

So I don’t want to be that guy, but Japan attacked Pearl Harbor partly because it didn’t have any other choice. It was being blockaded and couldn’t invade the Dutch East Indies or British territories without America intervening, so it opted to surprise attack, hoping that America would be scared out of the war.

So should we say that happened instead? When Pearl Harbor happened, a bunch of American aircraft carriers were not in the harbor at the time and survived, so should we say that those carriers didn’t survive? Therefore, America would not have joined the war, because they did not have the strength at the time to wage war. They could then have rebuilt to their strength now.