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Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII
OK if you say so. But even if this is theoretical for Japan to get a Peace with the US it has to have a basis in some reality right? So just to point out that even if they had the Falklands it would not prevent the US Navy from going around South America to access the Pacific The Falkland Islands are too small and vulnerable to present a threat to the US Navy. Not to mention the British and Argentines.
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It's easily big enough to hold an airfield and a naval port (over 10 000km2), from which aircraft and a sizeable fleet could destroy anything that tries to go through the Magellan strait, which would act as a choke point for anything trying to pass through. The existing British facilities would probably have to be expanded but the geography wouldn't pose any bigger problem than it did in Pearl or Truk.
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Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII
Not to mention the distance and difficulty of supplying it. Also If they could't even have the resources to invade the US then how could they attack,take and hold the Panama Canal and the Falklands. And large scale bombing from what Islands close to the US? Hawaii? The Aleutians? The only land based bomber that would have been close to being able to hit the US would have been the Nakajima G10N and development of that didn't start until 1943. Like I said the only way for the Japanese to have Peace would have not to attacked the US at all.
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As I mentioned before (several times), I'm not saying Japan had the capabilities to do it. I'm saying it's the minimum of what they'd have to do for the US to consider peace talks. Basically denial of the Pacific to the US and constant strategic and terror bombing on the mainland. As I've said before I don't think Japan had the capabilities to do it. I'm thinking in terms of how much it would take to bring the US to consider peace talks rather than what Japan was capable of.