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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
4. Then we could all get a chance to try Green Tea KitKats now!
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 02:33 PM
Aug 2015

But I don't think I'd want underwear vending machines on streetcorners.

Japan's defeat was inevitable after Germany fell. geek tragedy Aug 2015 #1
My thread is a "what if" they won Reter Aug 2015 #3
you'd have to invent a world that didn't exist. geek tragedy Aug 2015 #7
Vietnam could never win Reter Aug 2015 #11
Are we Vietnamese now? jberryhill Aug 2015 #26
big fan of alternative history, I'll give it a shot. a long shot. lol Javaman Aug 2015 #21
I've seen that exact scenario before geek tragedy Aug 2015 #23
LOL exactly. :) nt Javaman Aug 2015 #25
Screw everything... build up in Indochina jberryhill Aug 2015 #27
Wouldn't Japan have also.. Motown_Johnny Aug 2015 #30
Sounds good Buzz cook Aug 2015 #42
If the US didn't have "the bomb" it could have just continued the process of firebombing Japan into PoliticAverse Aug 2015 #2
But what if the US lost? Reter Aug 2015 #6
We'd have pixelated p0rn. n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2015 #8
Then we could all get a chance to try Green Tea KitKats now! Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #4
+1 nt Javaman Aug 2015 #22
Green tea Kit Kats are pretty good Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #43
I want some underwear davidpdx Aug 2015 #44
The only way to "lose" to Japan is to be invaded and conquered by them. arcane1 Aug 2015 #5
That's what I mean Reter Aug 2015 #9
I laid it out above, if they couldn't use a ground invasion, they'd literally starve Japan. geek tragedy Aug 2015 #14
No way we could have lost. MicaelS Aug 2015 #10
How exactly would we lose to Japan? I know this is all hypothetical, but where do we start? Rex Aug 2015 #12
I was not talking about them invading the US mainland Reter Aug 2015 #15
Oh okay gotcha that is easier to speculate imo. Rex Aug 2015 #16
If we retreated after 5 or 10 years, they would have had devastating losses Reter Aug 2015 #18
I think they would have been at war with the USSR and the US and in very bad shape. Rex Aug 2015 #20
Anyone's guess but... sarisataka Aug 2015 #13
If China had fallen before Pear Harbor Buzz cook Aug 2015 #17
check out my long shot alternative history at #21. nt Javaman Aug 2015 #24
On August 9, 1945, the Red Army invaded the Japanese-held Manchuria . . . Journeyman Aug 2015 #19
Eventually, we would have given up interests in the Pacific Motown_Johnny Aug 2015 #28
Who's "we"? Spider Jerusalem Aug 2015 #29
That movie, Fatherland, was based on a book. Dr Hobbitstein Aug 2015 #31
Japan had lost in fall of '44. HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #32
Japan lost at Pearl Harbor. oneshooter Aug 2015 #33
The U.S. was on the defensive for about a year. HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #34
I wouldn't say we had inferior planes, we just had different goals with our planes. NutmegYankee Aug 2015 #35
The P-40 was inferior, but they developed effective tactics against the Zeros. HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #36
Thew wildcat was outperformed, but that ruggedness served it well. NutmegYankee Aug 2015 #37
The big advantage it had... HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #38
Agree. nt NutmegYankee Aug 2015 #39
We would burn their cities and mine their harbors. AngryAmish Aug 2015 #40
If Japan had not lost RobertEarl Aug 2015 #41
I'm not a fan of alternative history davidpdx Aug 2015 #45
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