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Raspberries2 t1_iy1edxv wrote

Reply to comment by Kirito619 in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

No. Japan was creating an empire which means many attacks on many nations were to come.

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Coloradostoneman t1_iy2bcub wrote

I think they would have gone to some pretty extreme efforts to not go to war with us.

When you look at most of the basic industries for war, the US had a HUGE lead over the rest of the world. And the US industrial heartland was essentially untouchable. Nobody wanted to go to war with the US.

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Kirito619 t1_iy1ejus wrote

An empire in Asia, they were not strong enough to wage war across the world.

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