alt Hacker News> Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival
Right, they did. But in retrospect, was it actually?
If the US had stayed neutral from the beginning, do we think Japan would have bombed America's military base?
> Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival
Right, they did. But in retrospect, was it actually?
If the US had stayed neutral from the beginning, do we think Japan would have bombed America's military base?
Interesting counter-factual.
Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle suggests what would have happened if the US did lose the war. Remaining neutral would have been a different result, though.