[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

None of those areas were industrialized, developed with infrastructure, or otherwise capable of supporting resource production to fuel the Japanese war effort, which is why it's a well-known fact they were plagued by crippling supply/resource issues throughout the war & part of the reason why their planes, cities, and aircraft carriers were made out of WOOD.

Extreme intelligence, lol. The average Japanese person at the time was like 5' tall due to vastly inferior nutrition, and if you're applying modern IQ tests to their population at the time I'd be surprised if they were more intelligent at all, on average.

And you're god damn right demographics and geography are important. Ask Hitler or Napoleon about the Russian winter and capacity for defense-in-depth, and see how it goes waging war against a country with 10x your population and industrial capacity.



Against hawkish, chest-thumping American militarism, every time. Also went too many pages without disagreeing with someone

I'm the hawk arguing against a war with Syria that a Frenchman wants us to take the lead on because "Assad has chemical weapons" even though the same guy complains about "Irak" when Saddam killed 500,000 Iranians and used chemical weapons both in that war and against his Kurdish population. I'm not sure how that works