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> The biggest lesson of ww2 is that once a major industrial war starts - the only end is mutual exhaustion. I don’t see how one would draw that conclusion. The
by Someone 3y ago
> The biggest lesson of ww2 is that once a major industrial war starts - the only end is mutual exhaustion.
I don’t see how one would draw that conclusion. The USA were far from exhausted at the end of World War Two, and neither was Russia (but that required help from the USA. World war two was won thanks to American industrial output and Russian blood)
I also think the USA would have accepted a Japanese surrender long before its armies and industry were destroyed, if it came with giving up all occupied territory and large parts of its army and navy. Having too few natural resources at home, Japan barely (if at all) was an existential threat to the USA at the start of the war, and certainly wasn’t anymore once they were cut off from the oil fields in what now is Indonesia.
- nicbou 3y agoIsn't that what the person said? The US and USSR were not exhausted. Germany and Japan were.
- Someone 3y agoThey said “once a major industrial war starts - the only end is mutual exhaustion” I said I don’t see anything mutual about it. World War One was almost like that, but even then, the USA still was relatively fresh in November 1918, and, if fighting had gone on, the collapse of the western front would likely have raised morale for Britain and France.