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    AHC: Successful US (and/or UK) non-belligerent containment of militarist Japan with a 1932 or later PoD

    I’m still not convinced but I’ll have to track down the book, read it, and render a judgment. Incidentally, and I mean this quite sincerely, I do appreciate you actually giving me a source to check out. Too often I ask for one and just get told to fuck off.
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    AHC: Successful US (and/or UK) non-belligerent containment of militarist Japan with a 1932 or later PoD

    I understand both mentalities just fine. The thing is, the Americans didn't think the Japanese actually would be that fucking stupid. As for the Soviets...we had already had the first Red Scare by this point and going to war for the sake of preserving the USSR is so outrageous that one would...
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    AHC: Successful US (and/or UK) non-belligerent containment of militarist Japan with a 1932 or later PoD

    I’m not sure what these things are, but one also needs to factor in the political situation as well. In the 1930s, the U.S. public wasn’t really on board with a massive military buildup. Getting dragged into World War I (as the public saw it) had been a complete waste. Between not wanting...
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    AHC: Successful US (and/or UK) non-belligerent containment of militarist Japan with a 1932 or later PoD

    #NotThisShitAgain FDR didn't order the U.S. fleet away from Hawaii. That's a myth that's been *repeatedly* shown to be false. Carriers were at the time secondary to battleships. In this case, the carriers were off delivering planes to other sites. Also, the Soviets and the Japanese had a...
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    AHC: Successful US (and/or UK) non-belligerent containment of militarist Japan with a 1932 or later PoD

    Uh, no, it was after a series of other aid provided to the Chinese. Also, please explain to me how, precisely, sanctioning the Japanese, helps the USSR. Unless you mean the various border conflicts going on since 1932, in which case it would seem the whole embargo was way too little and too late...
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    AHC: Successful US (and/or UK) non-belligerent containment of militarist Japan with a 1932 or later PoD

    This whole post is so wrong I don’t know where to start, but I’ll give it a go… The original question was whether the U.S. could contain a militaristic Japan starting in 1932 without getting into a shooting war. My answer was and is “No” because the Japanese were interested in controlling the...
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    AHC: Successful US (and/or UK) non-belligerent containment of militarist Japan with a 1932 or later PoD

    Short answer: No. Long answer: Also no. Japan was busy mixing it up in China by 1932 and the U.S. was actually pretty pissed off about it; they just couldn't do anything because of 1) The Great Depression and 2) the U.S. mood being isolationist. The U.S. cut off oil supplies as a way to force...
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