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Originally Posted by Patriam1066
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Japan wasn't a worthy opponent? Highest average IQ plus brutally efficient genocidal dedication to the emperor and they got stomped...
Am I missing something?
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Economy and population a fraction the size of ours that hadn't fully westernized, already bogged down in a nasty ground-war in China, and starved of all the necessary strategic resources (oil, steel, rare-earth metals) to fight a modern war?
Hardly got stomped either, it was a slow, grueling campaign across the Pacific. And it only ended the way it did because of what the US does excel at, intellectual capital, ingenuity, and benefiting from brain drain.