Same here. I had never thought of the perfect storm of the Eastern Front counter-offensive, the changed US Neutrality Law, and Pearl Harbor. My brain is going to be buzzing for a while, wondering how a week or two differences in any of these would have changed matters.

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@@grizwoldphantasia5005 This video makes a lot of mistakes and takes on the view that Hitler coerced Japan to do anything or fooled the "innocent" butcher and rapist of 30 million people in Asia in countless undeclared wars to be unaccountable for its war crimes of using biological, chemical, and even attempt nuclear (right up to the end of the war) WMDs not even Germany used in WW2. Japan already cheated UK and US with the naval treaties by increasing its naval tonnage and bombed US ships in Nanjing in 1937 when WW2 was started by attacking China (a nation that would become 1 of 5 members of the permanent security council), then used the classic tactic used in In fact Pearl Harbor in of itself was a rehash of the same tactic used in the Russo-Japanese war. Attack the Russian Crown Prince, then when it fails, feign apology with school girls to hide behind them and insinuate reproach against Japan is to incriminate innocent girls (who are ofc raised on resources exploited off of the backs of other enslaved Asians), bide time, then start an undeclared war against Russia. It was "successful (not, really unable to force Russians to hand them money... which the Allies in WW2 did not do for Japan itself when by all means they should have instead of pumping trillions of Cold War dollars into it as a reward for being an Axis power... just like China would get in the 70s)" but they failed to remember that was only because UK and US kept bailing out the Japanese government multiple times, from total bankruptcy, as part of the Great Game. They didn't realize this would amount to biting the hand that feeds them (and even gave relief funds for the 1923 Earthquake while Japanese civilians were lynching 6,000 Asian foreigners within Japan, blaming the earthquake on them). The Japanese answer to US restricting exports of US Oil and Steel to Japan (and some limitations on some exports like expensive US machinery that drove Japanese industry much like Russians in 2022 realized too late that their industry relies heavily on imported US machinery as well) was to launch more undeclared invasions into Southeast Asia to exploit rubber and oil to fuel their insatiable war machine that 1 billion Asians in 1945 were all too grateful to be rid of when Japan was forced to surrender (not by nukes but by Soviets coming in from the West and like Nazis who butchered ppl in the Eastern Front and fled to the west to avoid life in Soviet gulags, Japan opted to surrender to the West but not the Soviets and have their country split like Germany) "Hitler thought this, Hitler thought that" that doesn't really give an accurate picture of what the Japanese ACTUALLY thought or did. It's like thinking Japan is not a thinking entity itself responsible for its actions but Germany decided everything for them, like someone put a gun to its head and sold 300,000 of Japanese girls overseas to make pimp money to develop Japan (leaders weren't even ashamed of this, praised this as Joshigun, or "Army of Girls") for the glorified Meiji Restoration period alone (samurai as far back as 1500 have been selling girls for Portuguese muskets just like African warlords, and when that wasn't enought started setting overseas brothels to earn war funds), then kidnapped 100s of 1000s of girls all over Asia and gave them 80-man daily rape quotas for soldiers in officially built military sex slave brothels, and executed most of any survivors by the end of the war to hide war crimes, and sent 5-digits of people into kamikazes by plane, boat, submarine, diving suits, etc. and did not care about daily reports of 10s of 1,000s of casualties by the end of the war and was planning Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, which was to use poison gas manufactured in the WMD production hub in Hiroshima to start bombing America as well... for September of 1945. Any attempt to expose their propaganda of victimhood is met with accusation of racism, of course.

@@CrabTastingMan Is there any actual purpose to your long rant? I don't know why you picked on me.

Nonsense. Try reading Hitler's second book. Then you will know that he saw the USA as the biggest threat to Europe. And he was right. Today's Europe is just a province strategically dependent on the USA. And Germany, the strongest country in Europe, is literally under the boot of the USA.

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Prior to video. Why didn't Hitler declare war on Japan? Unprovoked attacks and aggression. And he would have elicited some confused Americans to think positively about Germany standing against their invaders, the Japanese. And Germany wouldn't have to do anything to actually engage in war against the Japanese, merely confusing the situation by standing by the Americans and pledging to offer military support to them when able. So Japan could be informed of the plan and ploy to destroy the foes while they remain scattered. Instead of a 2 sided war between various allies, it could fracture the possibility of military alliance and be seen that the USA government was funding a war against a friendly power who supported their people, if not their current government.

@@glenmcgillivray4707 Japan and Germany were allies, they got cozy in the 30's.

I'm not sure if you call it a undeclared war, but they were not at all acting like neutrals.

@@TheEvilmooseofdoom When the US announced it would attack German vessels on sight, I would upgrade it to an undeclared war. Regardless, by December 7, 1941, the point of no return was well crossed (as noted in the video it is less claear when that line was crossed, but it was crossed before Pearl Harbor) and the US was going to war with Germany. Roosevelt had wanted to go to war with Germany for some time and with the Japanese attacks on Britain and then the US, he absolutely had the leverage he needed as a commitment to keeping the UK strong in Europe would facilitate the British Empire's fight against Japan. Germany not declaring war would allow the US to benefit from its "neutrality" until they declared war on their terms.

Hitler's declaration of War against the US itself contains most points why he made this decision. Unfortunatly it was censored on youtube, but may be found on odyssey or bit chute. On this regard, also the declaration of War against the USSR is interesting.

Japan's reluctance is already well known, but it's really interesting that every Axis nation had their gripes about dragging the USbinto the war. What's more interesting for me is that Germany had influence over Japan's non-aggression pact with the Soviets and then sticking to the Southern strike doctrine.

they are leaving out failed negoiations between nazi germany and the us. the us was pretty close to joining the axis powers. theres all kinds of photos and events that took place showing that the us was friendly to the nazi party. sold out madison square garden rallies to senators and congressmen hosting nazis at the capital and their homes.

and then the fact that we assimilated 15k nazis in the middle of the chaos that was left after germany failed in weeks. we would have trouble doing project paper clip in modern times in the time frame they did in 39

Oh no hes a human

These guys are great. I can highly recommend them.

Framing is everything. It`s always very interesting what german historians who work or worked in the UK for the UK goverment say and also what they tend not to touch Lets not foreget that the UK has destroyed classified archives from that time which had to be opened to the public in defiance to their own laws: So it had nothing to do with the fact that the US was already in the war, although somewhat covertly? Let`s just forget about asia for this (although the US was involved there too before Pearl Harbour). The US provided personal and marerial to the enemies or the axis even before that. Here are a few points in chronological order: July 1940, William J . Donovan (who then became the head of the forerunner of the OSS and then the USS) was send to the UK and then established things. Destroyers for Bases Agreement aka „Destroyer Deal“ (not to forget the Tyler Kent affair before that, it included Joseph Kennedy, the father of John F. Kennedy, part of it was opened to the public as part of the Watergate affair, part of it was classified until atleast 2015 [i don`t know if they have been declassified yet]) September 2, 1940 Lend-Lease Act March 11, 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 The destroyer USS Niblack attacked a German U-boat: the U-52 April 10, 1941 Greer Incident (aggression by the US, although it`s mostly framed differently by only mentioning a part of the story) September 4, 1941 The order for US ships to shoot at german and italian ships outside of US territorial waters September 9, 1941 USCGC Northland destroyed a German weather station in northeast Greenland. September 14, 1941 Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Presidential Proclamation No. 2526 (Alien Enemies--German) December 8, 1941 German declaration of war against the United States December 11, 1941

He also has a very charming accent that I like listening to.

Check out TIK (UKpostsr) on the same subject. He explains the uncomfortable truths with regard to Hitler.

@@davidelliott5843 Are there any comfortable truths concerning A. H.? I don't know. But thanks for the tip. I will certainly check it out.

Not like "real" historians who also spew propaganda from more than a century ago.

Thank you very much!

This video makes a lot of mistakes and takes on the view that Hitler coerced Japan to do anything or fooled the "innocent" butcher and rapist of 30 million people in Asia in countless undeclared wars to be unaccountable for its war crimes of using biological, chemical, and even attempt nuclear (right up to the end of the war) WMDs not even Germany used in WW2. Japan already cheated UK and US with the naval treaties by increasing its naval tonnage and bombed US ships in Nanjing in 1937 when WW2 was started by attacking China (a nation that would become 1 of 5 members of the permanent security council), then used the classic tactic used in In fact Pearl Harbor in of itself was a rehash of the same tactic used in the Russo-Japanese war. Attack the Russian Crown Prince, then when it fails, feign apology with school girls to hide behind them and insinuate reproach against Japan is to incriminate innocent girls (who are ofc raised on resources exploited off of the backs of other enslaved Asians), bide time, then start an undeclared war against Russia. It was "successful (not, really unable to force Russians to hand them money... which the Allies in WW2 did not do for Japan itself when by all means they should have instead of pumping trillions of Cold War dollars into it as a reward for being an Axis power... just like China would get in the 70s)" but they failed to remember that was only because UK and US kept bailing out the Japanese government multiple times, from total bankruptcy, as part of the Great Game. They didn't realize this would amount to biting the hand that feeds them (and even gave relief funds for the 1923 Earthquake while Japanese civilians were lynching 6,000 Asian foreigners within Japan, blaming the earthquake on them). The Japanese answer to US restricting exports of US Oil and Steel to Japan (and some limitations on some exports like expensive US machinery that drove Japanese industry much like Russians in 2022 realized too late that their industry relies heavily on imported US machinery as well) was to launch more undeclared invasions into Southeast Asia to exploit rubber and oil to fuel their insatiable war machine that 1 billion Asians in 1945 were all too grateful to be rid of when Japan was forced to surrender (not by nukes but by Soviets coming in from the West and like Nazis who butchered ppl in the Eastern Front and fled to the west to avoid life in Soviet gulags, Japan opted to surrender to the West but not the Soviets and have their country split like Germany) "Hitler thought this, Hitler thought that" that doesn't really give an accurate picture of what the Japanese ACTUALLY thought or did. It's like thinking Japan is not a thinking entity itself responsible for its actions but Germany decided everything for them, like someone put a gun to its head and sold 300,000 of Japanese girls overseas to make pimp money to develop Japan (leaders weren't even ashamed of this, praised this as Joshigun, or "Army of Girls") for the glorified Meiji Restoration period alone (samurai as far back as 1500 have been selling girls for Portuguese muskets just like African warlords, and when that wasn't enought started setting overseas brothels to earn war funds), then kidnapped 100s of 1000s of girls all over Asia and gave them 80-man daily rape quotas for soldiers in officially built military sex slave brothels, and executed most of any survivors by the end of the war to hide war crimes, and sent 5-digits of people into kamikazes by plane, boat, submarine, diving suits, etc. and did not care about daily reports of 10s of 1,000s of casualties by the end of the war and was planning Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, which was to use poison gas manufactured in the WMD production hub in Hiroshima to start bombing America as well... for September of 1945. Any attempt to expose their propaganda of victimhood is met with accusation of racism, of course.

Eh. Hitler actually welcomed the development and he enthusiastically went to war with the United States himself, as he wanted to finally have a go at those American ships convoying British supply lines.

The Japanese had informed Hitler on 17 November that they would attack the US.

too bad he only does them in non public settings i.e. Sandhurst and MOD. This channel should bring him on more if possible.

I too would love to attend a seminar by AH

Buy his book, its about Hitler declaring war on America.

How is this actual history?

@@NJP-Supremacist If you have to genuinely ask the question and aren't just being another in a long line of unimaginative, banal trolls, then you're on the wrong channel.

@@TheDoctor1225 Why can't anyone genuinely ask this question? You think it's impossible to answer honestly? I'm not a troll, you answer the question, otherwise you're a malicious actor who isn't serious about any political issue.

Isn't this what the IJA wanted to do eventually? I may have been misinformed but I thought remember reading about how the IJN and it's allies in Government eventually gained effective control of the majority of resources for their own forays into the pacific.

@@DieNextInLINE The IJA was extremely unprepared for a war with the USSR and lost early skirmishes with them near Mongolia. Germany made several attempts at convincing Japan to join an official alliance against the Soviets because they were ideologically against communism, but Japan knew they wouldn't win that. It didn't benefit Germany all that much to switch its alliance from nationalist China to Japan in the long run.

Yes axis powers thinking they could defeat the American and Russian at same time bad mistake

@@jadenhiggins7167Japan attacked America because they essentially had to to secure pacific strategic oil reserves. It was either try and knock out the US with one attack or give up its imperialist desires. They chose to try and take out all the US aircraft carriers in one go. That obviously didn’t happen. Pearl Harbor being nothing short of total annihilation of the US in pacific meant japan was screwed. Pearl Harbor was a Hail Mary.

I have to agree with you. Not bringing America into the war, shouldve been their primary objective. Had Japan joined the axis powers in a fight against Russia, instead of attacking pearl harbor. Things would have been very different.

Polak = Superior Slav

My girlfriend is Polish and is studying ballet. She is a pole dancer.

That's fucked up my dude.

Huh?

Grow up.

Glad it was helpful!

Germany invaded every country they could and never gave an official declaration of war beforehand. He was just performing lip service.

@@Wallyworld30 But that's different, Germany was still the actor and not the one being acted upon. It's not like they were worried Austria was going to invade Germany. In this case though it's a pride and arrogance thing.

@@ashfox7498 Germany didn't invade Austria. Most Austrians welcomed the Anschluss, which just fulfilled the desire for the großdeutsche Lösung.

@@ragnarokgzlr8522 Yeah I should have said poland maybe, same issue though; Germany didn't not declare war on them out of the same arrogance that lead them to declare war on America.

@@ashfox7498 It was hubris just as it was when Goering said “If one enemy bomb falls on Berlin, you can call me Meyer.” In a bit of dark humor after the Allies started bombing Berlin and Ruhr on the daily basis the locals called the air raid sirens "Meyers trumpets".

Thank you!!!

You're welcome!

Watch Ken Burns Holocaust. They talk about this.

Framing is everything. It`s always very interesting what german historians who work or worked in the UK for the UK goverment say and also what they tend not to touch Lets not foreget that the UK has destroyed classified archives from that time which had to be opened to the public in defiance to their own laws: So it had nothing to do with the fact that the US was already in the war, although somewhat covertly? Let`s just forget about asia for this (although the US was involved there too before Pearl Harbour). The US provided personal and material to the enemies or the axis even before that. Here are a few points in chronological order (be aware some were mentioned): July 1940, William J . Donovan (who then became the head of the forerunner of the OSS and then the OSS) was send to the UK and then established things. Destroyers for Bases Agreement aka „Destroyer Deal“ (not to forget the Tyler Kent affair before that, it included Joseph Kennedy, the father of John F. Kennedy, part of it was opened to the public as part of the Watergate affair, part of it was classified until atleast 2015 [i don`t know if they have been declassified yet]) September 2, 1940 Lend-Lease Act March 11, 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 The destroyer USS Niblack attacked a German U-boat: the U-52 April 10, 1941 Greer Incident (aggression by the US, although it`s mostly framed differently by only mentioning a part of the story) September 4, 1941 The order for US ships to shoot at german and italian ships outside of US territorial waters September 9, 1941 USCGC Northland destroyed a German weather station in northeast Greenland. September 14, 1941 Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Presidential Proclamation No. 2526 (Alien Enemies--German) December 8, 1941 German declaration of war against the United States December 11, 1941

Congress had yet to completely abdicate its responsibility to determine when the USA goes to war.

The U.S. (English-speaking countries in general in my opinion) have a cultural predilection for always trying to let the other guy fire the first shot in order to look like they were merely forced into fighting (references to Lusitania/Zimmermann Telegramm, resupplying Fort Sumter, fake news at Tonkin Gulf, fake news when Maine blew up in Cuba, WMDs in Iraq, Brits using excuse of Belgian and then Polish neutrality, etc. [Hitler emulated at Gleiwitz of course].)

The US could not declare was on Germany because there wasn't support for this in Congress. Roosevelt needed congressional approval to declare war, but Hitler saved him the trouble.

It would have been a harder sell for the US to declare war on Germany and Italy. The US might have shed isolationism (or had it bombed out of them), but there was a very big push within the US to go after Japan alone, or failing that, to go after Japan first. Roosevelt was on board with Germany First. The Chiefs of the Army (Marshall) and Navy (King) were much harder sells, and weren't exactly pleased with Roosevelt's Germany First Agreement.

One should take EVERYTHING Churchill has ever said with a mountain of salt.

1: Egomania. 2: Doesn't require being "thoughtful" (this implies an unnecessary amount of moral rumination); only requires intelligence. And, well, see #1. 3: Who gives a shit?

Millions of German people gave their lives to support him. Millions more people fought to supress him. He was a man from nowhere with no past and no prospects at the end of WW1. How did this MONSTER get created? Did the Devil do it? Did God ? It is SUCH a strange, unlikely story. But listen... Mr canon fodder speaks.... 'who gives a shit?', says he To ignore the failings of the past is to repeat those failures. So YOU kind sir, should give a shit.

@@timothyodering6299 : You give humans far too much credit. The evidence suggests that they're easily led into catastrophe. Charisma and intelligence is all that's required to separate a man from men. No wisdom, no particularly special attributes. No, no. Your romanticism blinds you to reality. Most of these pompous windbags contribute nothing to society. Many of them steal from society. And many of them make wars in service of their ego. Check your infatuation with Hitler---because that's exactly what it is, infatuation. Regardless of what you think of the "Great Man" theory of history, there's literally no evidence to suggest that Hitler was great in any measure excepting opportunity. He was a charlatan. He contributed nothing positive to civilization.

Framing is everything. It`s always very interesting what german historians who work or worked in the UK for the UK goverment say and also what they tend not to touch Lets not foreget that the UK has destroyed classified archives from that time which had to be opened to the public in defiance to their own laws: So it had nothing to do with the fact that the US was already in the war, although somewhat covertly? Let`s just forget about asia for this (although the US was involved there too before Pearl Harbour). The US provided personal and material to the enemies or the axis even before that. Here are a few points in chronological order (be aware some were mentioned): July 1940, William J . Donovan (who then became the head of the forerunner of the OSS and then the OSS) was send to the UK and then established things. Destroyers for Bases Agreement aka „Destroyer Deal“ (not to forget the Tyler Kent affair before that, it included Joseph Kennedy, the father of John F. Kennedy, part of it was opened to the public as part of the Watergate affair, part of it was classified until atleast 2015 [i don`t know if they have been declassified yet]) September 2, 1940 Lend-Lease Act March 11, 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 The destroyer USS Niblack attacked a German U-boat: the U-52 April 10, 1941 Greer Incident (aggression by the US, although it`s mostly framed differently by only mentioning a part of the story) September 4, 1941 The order for US ships to shoot at german and italian ships outside of US territorial waters September 9, 1941 USCGC Northland destroyed a German weather station in northeast Greenland. September 14, 1941 Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Presidential Proclamation No. 2526 (Alien Enemies--German) December 8, 1941 German declaration of war against the United States December 11, 1941

When the Anglo-American alliance went as deep as it deep as it were - Germany were in war with USA and Britain - German/Hitler thinking about US neutrality is purely about direct/hot attacks -which as said in this video - the Americans were sure would happen.

It's no secret that Hitler thought of Americans as decadent and weak. And perhaps, had Pearl Harbor never happened, he may have had a point.

Hitler was not stupid as he has been portrayed. He knew the might of the US and was actively trying to win over those in powerful positions in the US. Why else would he allow the British army at Dunkirk to go back to England unmolested during their retreat if he truly wanted to fight Great Britain? It was a show of restraint and a lack of aggression against England when Hitler could have massacred the British forces there and scored a tactical victory and a propaganda bonanza which would have demoralized allied troops knowing how their comrades were slaughtered. Hardly a choice a raving blood thirsty lunatic would make if set on global domination.

@@truebeliever5233 There were a bunch of german peaceoffers to objective very sensible conditions from the german side, while germany was winning from the beginning. It has been alledged that Rudolf Heß, when he flew and parachuted into the UK did so on a secret peacemission to meet the King of the UK but was caught by uk security services who had their loyalties to the prime minister. If this was true this would be another ignoring of the Hague Convntion (i think the allies ignored pretty much all points of it in regards to germany). This peace thing has to my understanding been nudged on by the UK high command (i don`t remember which one). Don`t forget that the UK has bombed german population centers for about a year until german high command allowed to bomb mainland UK and even then limited it to military targets according to the rules of war. There is a lot more.

Yes although I think defeating the Soviets was to be more or less simultaneous with winning the Battle of the Atlantic (which would deprive the U.S. of a base from which to project its strength into Europe if it chose to fight Germany more or less alone).

Framing is everything. It`s always very interesting what german historians who work or worked in the UK for the UK goverment say and also what they tend not to touch Lets not foreget that the UK has destroyed classified archives from that time which had to be opened to the public in defiance to their own laws: So it had nothing to do with the fact that the US was already in the war, although somewhat covertly? Let`s just forget about asia for this (although the US was involved there too before Pearl Harbour). The US provided personal and material to the enemies or the axis even before that. Here are a few points in chronological order (be aware some were mentioned): July 1940, William J . Donovan (who then became the head of the forerunner of the OSS and then the OSS) was send to the UK and then established things. Destroyers for Bases Agreement aka „Destroyer Deal“ (not to forget the Tyler Kent affair before that, it included Joseph Kennedy, the father of John F. Kennedy, part of it was opened to the public as part of the Watergate affair, part of it was classified until atleast 2015 [i don`t know if they have been declassified yet]) September 2, 1940 Lend-Lease Act March 11, 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 The destroyer USS Niblack attacked a German U-boat: the U-52 April 10, 1941 Greer Incident (aggression by the US, although it`s mostly framed differently by only mentioning a part of the story) September 4, 1941 The order for US ships to shoot at german and italian ships outside of US territorial waters September 9, 1941 USCGC Northland destroyed a German weather station in northeast Greenland. September 14, 1941 Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Presidential Proclamation No. 2526 (Alien Enemies--German) December 8, 1941 German declaration of war against the United States December 11, 1941

Of course he did not hate the US and not even the UK. The so called "racist legislation" which the Herr Professor talked about was likely the restricted immigration act of the 20s. Hilarious.

You mean we're supplying someone right now in a war but acting like we're neutral lol?

@@watching99134 We never said we were neutral in Ukraine. Stop making stuff up.

@@watching99134 No we're not. Our country is firmly and openly against the invasion. We're not being secret about our funding of Ukraine.

@@watching99134 the US isn’t neutral. Their president has stated multiple times they are supporting Ukraine and not Russia. Are you not paying attention to international news? Edit: Just realized you’re American. Which makes your comment even dumber.

What consensus? The Japanese government didn't even decide to go to war with China, some local military hotheads first took over Manchuria and later invaded them, with the government just having to go along with it, lest they risk being outright murdered. They wouldn't have dared taking over European colonies if the latter they hadn't been busy with war in Europe. And until the American oil embargo the Japanese army was more interested in revanche against the Russians. Absolutely erratic, particularly to anyone dealing with them diplomatically since the foreign ministry didn't know what the army would do next.

@@fips711 I'm interpreting "consensus" as you described the situation, the army does what it wants and the gov has to go along. The army kept attacking into more and more territory; Mongolia was their only setback. And it was the army that moved into southern Indochina, finally provoking the American economic response. No lack of motivation for war on the Japanese army's part. You mentioned something I missed, that maybe Hitler was hearing a lack of commitment from Japanese diplomats, who of course didn't represent the erratic military officers who were de facto in charge.

​@Fips One does not randomly happenstance into invading all of Southeast Asia without prior aspirations and political will behind it even in those first few tentative steps.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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@@Reiman33 "Winston Churchill was not going to negotiate with the Germans. Period. The end." Which is likely why Hitler veered towards war instead of making yet another peace offer.

Hitler praised the United States and it's racial eugenics structure before the war

He never declared war.

The US was already at war.

This video makes a lot of mistakes and takes on the view that Hitler coerced Japan to do anything or fooled the "innocent" butcher and rapist of 30 million people in Asia in countless undeclared wars to be unaccountable for its war crimes of using biological, chemical, and even attempt nuclear (right up to the end of the war) WMDs not even Germany used in WW2. Japan already cheated UK and US with the naval treaties by increasing its naval tonnage and bombed US ships in Nanjing in 1937 when WW2 was started by attacking China (a nation that would become 1 of 5 members of the permanent security council), then used the classic tactic used in In fact Pearl Harbor in of itself was a rehash of the same tactic used in the Russo-Japanese war. Attack the Russian Crown Prince, then when it fails, feign apology with school girls to hide behind them and insinuate reproach against Japan is to incriminate innocent girls (who are ofc raised on resources exploited off of the backs of other enslaved Asians), bide time, then start an undeclared war against Russia. It was "successful (not, really unable to force Russians to hand them money... which the Allies in WW2 did not do for Japan itself when by all means they should have instead of pumping trillions of Cold War dollars into it as a reward for being an Axis power... just like China would get in the 70s)" but they failed to remember that was only because UK and US kept bailing out the Japanese government multiple times, from total bankruptcy, as part of the Great Game. They didn't realize this would amount to biting the hand that feeds them (and even gave relief funds for the 1923 Earthquake while Japanese civilians were lynching 6,000 Asian foreigners within Japan, blaming the earthquake on them). The Japanese answer to US restricting exports of US Oil and Steel to Japan (and some limitations on some exports like expensive US machinery that drove Japanese industry much like Russians in 2022 realized too late that their industry relies heavily on imported US machinery as well) was to launch more undeclared invasions into Southeast Asia to exploit rubber and oil to fuel their insatiable war machine that 1 billion Asians in 1945 were all too grateful to be rid of when Japan was forced to surrender (not by nukes but by Soviets coming in from the West and like Nazis who butchered ppl in the Eastern Front and fled to the west to avoid life in Soviet gulags, Japan opted to surrender to the West but not the Soviets and have their country split like Germany) "Hitler thought this, Hitler thought that" that doesn't really give an accurate picture of what the Japanese ACTUALLY thought or did. It's like thinking Japan is not a thinking entity itself responsible for its actions but Germany decided everything for them, like someone put a gun to its head and sold 300,000 of Japanese girls overseas to make pimp money to develop Japan (leaders weren't even ashamed of this, praised this as Joshigun, or "Army of Girls") for the glorified Meiji Restoration period alone (samurai as far back as 1500 have been selling girls for Portuguese muskets just like African warlords, and when that wasn't enought started setting overseas brothels to earn war funds), then kidnapped 100s of 1000s of girls all over Asia and gave them 80-man daily rape quotas for soldiers in officially built military sex slave brothels, and executed most of any survivors by the end of the war to hide war crimes, and sent 5-digits of people into kamikazes by plane, boat, submarine, diving suits, etc. and did not care about daily reports of 10s of 1,000s of casualties by the end of the war and was planning Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, which was to use poison gas manufactured in the WMD production hub in Hiroshima to start bombing America as well... for September of 1945. Any attempt to expose their propaganda of victimhood is met with accusation of racism, of course.

Problem is that US was not neutral towards Germany... shipping tons and tons of equipment and fuel to Britain is not being neutral. If the US truly wanted to stay out of the war they would have acted different. The fact is that US wanted war but had no way to convince the population, a problem the Japanese solved for them.

@@azoniarnl3362 Correct the Roosevelt administration viewed Germany as a threat. However, Japan attacking the US did not mean Germany had to declare war on the US. It was a misstep on Hitler's part.

@@mrgunn2726 I see your point but as I said the US was already acting as a war industry for the Allies, on paper they were at peace but in practice they werent. The US was hiding behind neutrality to prevent Germans from sinking their ships, ships that carried war materials.. just listen to full declaration of war and you will see that Germans in their mind were already at war with the US but just not on paper.

I have a theory that if the attack on Pearl harbor had been replused, hitler might have delayed declaring war on the US for 6 months to a year.

Some said Roosevelt manufactured pearl harbor exactly like how 9/11 was

It wasn't erratic. It was all pursuant to the junta's desire to control East Asia. c.f. "The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific" -- Akira Iriye (1987)

@@SlinkyTWF I'll have a look into it. I mean I know the whole "land vs navy" rivalry the country had and how it changed to a doctrine that is more navy focused after the defeat of Kalking Gol and all that, but I'm not sure if that is what he is referring to.

military often acted autonomonously from the gov

The main issue was that no one in the Japanese higher echelons had a final say in dictating policies. For the United States, the president made a final decision. Japan’s political system, however, was in an awful mess. Both army and navy had their seats in the cabinet. Furthermore, they technically answered directly to the emperor, not the prime minister. A bunch of extremist groups also fuel political turmoil. The assassination of members of opposition parties occurred so often that Admiral Yamamoto felt safer when he was at sea rather than on land.

Japan often functioned as an army with a government, rather than a government with an army. Foreign policy was not infrequently dictacted not by Tokyo but by the schemes of mid-level officers in the field, without prior approval of their government or even higher command. The war in China essentially came about that way as did the fighting at Khalkin Gol. War with the United States & Britain was a bit of an exception in that it had originated with Tokyo.

I wouldn't be to sure about that. Ww1 was quite devestating for US populus, moraly, economy was getting on its feet after depression (war helped us economy here, alot)... it is a fact usa was preparing for war (250k total military personel in 1939, 450k in 1940, 1.8m by 1941..), but doing anything to join? Nah man, facts show US was quite pacifistic and isolatistic in the early-mid 1900 with an army smaller then portugals or bulgaria. Totaly different USA from todays USA. Without Japans attack on US home territory and hitlers declaration, direct involvement in eu would come very late, if it would even come. We do know that majority of usa populus and military wanted japan 1st, eu later, meybe later. Germans at the Moscows gates was probably the reason europe got priority in the end. .. one fun fuct, hitler somehow admired usa, especily its racial laws at the time

This is just speculation since most of the decisions Germany made during the war rested on Hitler's whims & he shot himself without leaving much of a paper trail on why some decisions were made...but he probably did not anticipate the U.S. adopting a Germany first policy in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attacks, likely underestimated the speed at which the U.S. could mobilize or wage a two front war, probably understimated how long it would take to deply U.S. forces in significant numbers to the European theater (the U.S. had much less merchant shipping in WW1, and as a result along with some other factors the process had been much slower), and probably expected that U.S. naval contributions to the Battle of the Atlantic would be minimized by the threat posed by the Japanese navy, which he also expected (which is documented) to win.

You best try again and this time, don't be so obtuse.

The treaty didn't require a declaration of war from Germany. It was essentially defensive in nature, the signing powers were required to go to war on behalf of each other if another power initiatized war against them. Since Japan had attacked the U.S. rather than the other way around, neither Germany or Italy was required to go to war with the United States. It's also why Japan did not declare war on the Soviet Union when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, aside from their own strategic reasons for staying out, they had no treaty obligation with Germany to join the war.

​@@jamessullivan4391Are your parents also this dumb?

@@ahorsewithnoname773 The US was already at war with Germany.

The US was already at war with Germany in 1940, as Admiral King had confirmed at the time.

Framing is everything. It`s always very interesting what german historians who work or worked in the UK for the UK goverment say and also what they tend not to touch Lets not foreget that the UK has destroyed classified archives from that time which had to be opened to the public in defiance to their own laws: So it had nothing to do with the fact that the US was already in the war, although somewhat covertly? Let`s just forget about asia for this (although the US was involved there too before Pearl Harbour). The US provided personal and material to the enemies or the axis even before that. Here are a few points in chronological order (be aware some were mentioned): July 1940, William J . Donovan (who then became the head of the forerunner of the OSS and then the OSS) was send to the UK and then established things. Destroyers for Bases Agreement aka „Destroyer Deal“ (not to forget the Tyler Kent affair before that, it included Joseph Kennedy, the father of John F. Kennedy, part of it was opened to the public as part of the Watergate affair, part of it was classified until atleast 2015 [i don`t know if they have been declassified yet]) September 2, 1940 Lend-Lease Act March 11, 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941 The destroyer USS Niblack attacked a German U-boat: the U-52 April 10, 1941 Greer Incident (aggression by the US, although it`s mostly framed differently by only mentioning a part of the story) September 4, 1941 The order for US ships to shoot at german and italian ships outside of US territorial waters September 9, 1941 USCGC Northland destroyed a German weather station in northeast Greenland. September 14, 1941 Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Presidential Proclamation No. 2526 (Alien Enemies--German) December 8, 1941 German declaration of war against the United States December 11, 1941

They misjudged American industry by about 2 years though, they predicted the US industry wouldn't max out until 1945. Turned out the US maxed out by 1943.

...except for that time that America beat them so hard they were forced to open up to the world.

I think I remember hearing that quote or maybe it was a different quote where he says the same thing and more. But it also included something about how Italy always ends up on the winning side. Could you tell me where you got this quote? I have lost it.

@@program4215 It’s from Ian Kershaw’s biography on Hitler, I believe. I first heard it on the real-time documentary channel ‘WW2 in Real Time’ by Timeghost.

But Korea had defeated Japan in the invasion of 1592-1598

What is your point? One anecdote does not override larger factors (speaking of that part of the world, did the U.S. go to war with Israel in 1967 over the USS Liberty?)