Intersting how both major Axis powers believed that:
*Swift, sudden "knock-out blows" were the way to win...
*Democracies were composed of lazy no-goodnik collections of "mongrels" without the will or "stomach" to fight and defeat them...
Maybe you have to believe your own propoganda to convince yourself that you're in the right when you know somehow that its all going to go wrong if the single "masterstroke" goes astray or fails to achieve the stated goal...
It must have appeared to the American public of 1941 that there were monsters loose in the world. Funny how hindsight makes one realise how unprepared the Japanese actually were for what they had started.
Cheesy industrial base and short on the very resources they'd need to fight the Big 'Un, even with what they'd already conquered before Pearl Harbor.
Makes one wonder what would have transpired in the world if they had chosen NOT to attack Pearl, and had thrown these resources at British armed strength in the PTO, or the China-Burma-India Theater...

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