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Well, Marcus Clarkus was left in charge for quite a while. And McArthur was only sacked after he wanted to nuke Korea. The allies were better in WW2 than the o

by hef19898 4y ago

Well, Marcus Clarkus was left in charge for quite a while. And McArthur was only sacked after he wanted to nuke Korea. The allies were better in WW2 than the others, because they had a feasible grabd strategy and outperformed the Axis on operations. That, and the fact the Allies committed their full industrial might for years, while having public support for doing so.

rnk 4y ago
Yeah, we had way more stuff. We could design, iterate and build things fast. But we could build way more copies of things than the other people. The sophistication of the Japanese carrier forces and their strategies, the tanks, etc, the way the Germans waged war, etc were far ahead of the US in some ways. But we could build way more stuff, and we could ship a ton of it to Russia to keep Germany from wiping them out. We were willing to make changes in our military strategies over time, we learned (and made mistakes). We did stupid stuff too of course, plus don't forget endemic racism, resistance to black people having any role more important than moving supplies around (women too, other groups too, there's no end of our racism). Stealing and imprisoning Japanese people. Different subject, but I was just thinking what ww2 would have looked like if we had the slightly evolved social order, protections, liberties we have today. We still have racism and sexism and ... but it's different now (but still there). Most large organizations like the military still have an old boys club but they also did a lot of work to improve things. We have so far to go as a society. What if we didn't round up all the Japanese people and destroy or steal their possessions. How would the groups have dealt with the war? I think it would be like Russians living in Europe today, plenty are influenced by propaganda news orgs to think that Ukraine is somehow the bad guy, even though they are living in free, safe, and well off societies out of Russia.

rnk 4y ago

Yeah, we had way more stuff. We could design, iterate and build things fast. But we could build way more copies of things than the other people. The sophistication of the Japanese carrier forces and their strategies, the tanks, etc, the way the Germans waged war, etc were far ahead of the US in some ways. But we could build way more stuff, and we could ship a ton of it to Russia to keep Germany from wiping them out. We were willing to make changes in our military strategies over time, we learned (and made mistakes). We did stupid stuff too of course, plus don't forget endemic racism, resistance to black people having any role more important than moving supplies around (women too, other groups too, there's no end of our racism). Stealing and imprisoning Japanese people. Different subject, but I was just thinking what ww2 would have looked like if we had the slightly evolved social order, protections, liberties we have today. We still have racism and sexism and ... but it's different now (but still there). Most large organizations like the military still have an old boys club but they also did a lot of work to improve things. We have so far to go as a society. What if we didn't round up all the Japanese people and destroy or steal their possessions. How would the groups have dealt with the war? I think it would be like Russians living in Europe today, plenty are influenced by propaganda news orgs to think that Ukraine is somehow the bad guy, even though they are living in free, safe, and well off societies out of Russia.