_xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 months agoWhy are they like thislemm.eeimagemessage-square136fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoPearl Harbor may have also been a factor, but there is definitely something to that. America was hoping to grind them both to dust with each other. And largely that was successful. The Eastern Front was a hellscape of death.
minus-squaregayhitler420@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoPearl Harbor was a Japanese response to the American blockade and shipping operations in the pacific during the war.
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThe tonnage war certainly started well before that. Lend Lease act to the USSR was in place for nearly a year beforehand even.
Pearl Harbor may have also been a factor, but there is definitely something to that.
America was hoping to grind them both to dust with each other. And largely that was successful. The Eastern Front was a hellscape of death.
Pearl Harbor was a Japanese response to the American blockade and shipping operations in the pacific during the war.
The tonnage war certainly started well before that. Lend Lease act to the USSR was in place for nearly a year beforehand even.