In order to project meaningful power onto the Japanese mainland we had to construct a chain of island bases across the pacific.
Contrast that with German where we had an ally on their border until France fell, then we had one only 21 miles across the English Channel. Sure we had to defeat the U-boat menace, but we already had a launch point for Normandy.
My point exactly.
Japan started bombing US bases on Dec 7, 1941. Six months later, June 6,1942 they attacked the Aleutian Islands. They built a base on Kiska which was the first stepping stone across the Pacific in preparation for invasion of N America.
We responded by building a base on Adak in Aug 1942, from which we attacked Kiska. The US Navy formed a blockade of Kiska and we bombed hell out of the island for almost a year before the Japanese abandoned the island.
Conversely, if England had fallen Germans could of hoped to Iceland then Greenland for their launch point into North America.
The world was much smaller in 1945 that it was in 1780. And it is a heck of a lot smaller today than it was in '45.
Hell, even Iran or N Korea could reach us with weapons today. Appeasement won't prevent that. Sometime you have to go kill people and break things.
That said, I hope Putin dropped everything those thirteen planes could carry right on Zelensky's head. Along with any American over there helping to suck the American Treasury dry and lining their own pockets.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
