So, all of the last four months of ’39, all of ’40, and most of ’41, we’re talking almost two and a half years, the United States had watched the Germans absorb most of Western Europe and the Balkans, and had been in Russia. And we had because we had no other mechanism to convince them to get out of China, it was not their territory, to get out of Korea, to get out of Southeast Asia, and to not absorb the Dutch East Indies. If you look at the Japanese Imperial Navy and Army, and given its size and given the number of belligerents, combatants had lost and civilians versus how many they killed, they were more lethal than either the Russians on our side or the Germans on the other side.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-12-09 22:32:35
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