06-08-2015, 06:54 PM
(06-08-2015, 05:48 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: FDR stopped trading with Japan to appease China. Which forced Japan to attempt a deal with Germany.
Had we stayed out of Asia... Japan would have taken most of China, and probably the russian east coast. And Asia today would not be communist.... But capitalist... And we would not have had, Korea, Vietnam either.
Had we stayed just selling To everyone the world would be a better place. maybe we get into Europe late.... But we don't have Pearl Harbour...
There is so much wrong with your "what if" theory's of history, it's difficult to know where to even begin. Just like everything else in history, we have more info now more often than at the time the decisions were being made. These are some pretty big grandiose hypotheticals. First of all communism was far from defeated, second Imperial Japan would not have been a capitalists system. And your speculation regarding Korea or Vietnam, is just that, speculation. And regardless of whether we went to war with Hitler first, we would have gone to war with Japan as soon as we did.
And we might have prevented Pearl Harbor, but we would've gone to war regardless. And who's to say Pearl Harbor doesn't just happen at a different time.
