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[–]_zarkon_ 64ポイント65ポイント  (2子コメント)

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." -- Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

[–]Keiichi81 30ポイント31ポイント  (4子コメント)

I dunno, Hitler deciding to double-cross and invade Russia is up there too.

[–]fizzlefist 6ポイント7ポイント  (1子コメント)

Napoleon invading Russia didn't work out so well either.

[–]HRHill 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Napoleon Dynamite was a winner, though.

Checkmate.

[–]CruelHandLuke7 17ポイント18ポイント  (11子コメント)

How could attacking a country that has infinite natural resources and industrial capabilities go wrong?

[–]Lil_Psychobuddy 10ポイント11ポイント  (6子コメント)

Well if their plan had worked they would have taken out the entire pacific fleet and the west coast would have fallen in a month~

The only reason they fucked up was accidentally attacking on one of the few days the fleet was ou on manuevers, so only a small portion was in the harbor.

[–]hotel2oscar 9ポイント10ポイント  (3子コメント)

That implies they could have sustained an invasion while still maintaining their war in China.

[–]Lil_Psychobuddy 8ポイント9ポイント  (2子コメント)

Sustaining an invasion is fairly easy when you have uncontested control of the sea/air. But I don't believe they wanted to invade America, just destroy Americas ability to stop them from taking over the pacific. All they had to do for that was destroy every ship, and periodically bombard the coast so the can't make more.

Then they'd have no way to get troops to the pacific.

[–]hotel2oscar 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

We could always build on east coast and sail them over

Edit: Japan would also have a harder time sneaking in and bombing new ships with radar and land based aircraft protecting the coast. The reason pearl harbor worked was that we weren't expecting it.

[–]Lil_Psychobuddy 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nope. The Panama canal and the cape of South America are easily defendable, going the long way around would take months, you'd be invading controlled waters with new untested ships, so you'd have to split the Atlantic fleet and open yourself up to the Germans.

Edit: not to mention how long it takes to build a new carrier....

[–]_mapporn_ -1ポイント0ポイント  (1子コメント)

Well if their plan had worked they would have taken out the entire pacific fleet and the west coast would have fallen in a month~

Are you stupid? They never even planned on taking hawaii let alone the west coast. Ever wonder why they didn't invade hawaii? There's a reason why japan just hit pearl harbor and ran.

[–]Lil_Psychobuddy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Are you stupid? Cause that's what I fucking said. The wanted to destroy Americas pacific fleet, which at the time was almost entirely anchored in pearl harbor.

[–]HTF1209 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

I know this is all jokes, but whenever I see memes and comments like that it seems like many people in the USA suffer from serious hubris.

[–]CruelHandLuke7 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm Canadian......we were already knee deep in the war by the time they got off their asses and joined in.

[–]L43 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

From experience, this is very true (in comparison to other countries). I feel like it's bred in the culture.

[–]_mapporn_ 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The problem was that the nation with infinite natural resources placed sanctions on resource poor japan.

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930

So japan decided to gamble with an attack and use the time the US had to rebuild the pacific fleet and build an empire of their own with infinite natural resources and industrial capabilities...

After all, that's what ww2 was about, ownership and control of resources. Unfortunately for japan, the odds were stacked against them and they got a whooping.

[–]17Hongo 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

The Cathars would disagree with you, if there were any left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade

[–]ideleteall 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Deus most definitely did not Vult for the Cathars.

 

HERESY

[–]Molotch -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Exactly this, Japan is thriving.

[–]dirty_ballbag 30ポイント31ポイント  (6子コメント)

Even for tongue in cheek humour, this is pure cringe.

[–]Dragenz 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Out of curiosity why do you think so?

[–]penwraith -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

it's about violence. it's about attacking people.

it's a threat based meme.

aaaaaand it's creepy.

[–]FkTeemo 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

Found the Japanese dude

[–]_mapporn_ 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Weeeaaaaaaaabooooooooooooooooooo...

[–]speelabeep 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oh I agree. Even as an American whose grandfather fought in WWll... I feel 100% cringe when looking at this picture.

[–]penwraith -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I agree as well. this war meme is creepy.

as an american whose grandfather was a WWII military doctor (he was stationed in america to help returning wounded soldiers, but still he was enlisted)

[–]zykezero 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

The japanese have a history of fucking up royally by attacking someones navy.

[–]HK_13 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

Good movie bout this, roaring currents - or 'the admiral' in the us

[–]zykezero 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

I enjoyed my history lesson from Extra Credits - Admiral Yi.

[–]JonnyP1114 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Agreed. Admrial Yi was a bad motherfucker. I think that one was my favorite series on extra credits. Although the Justian one was pretty sweet too, love me some ERE history.

[–]ewrewr1 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Management lesson: Don't put a guy in charge who doesn't think it'll work.

[–]vash989 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

...and America dropped 2 bombs on the Japanese people. Bombs that were so big, their penises got smaller. Which is why they censor them in all of their porn today son, out of shame and regret for the terrible decision that lead them to this fate.

[–]llcooljessie 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

That doesn't sound right.

[–]_mapporn_ 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Actually, we wrote japan's constitution after ww2 including their censorship laws. Japan's censorship laws were pretty much identical to the US censorship laws in 1946/7...

"The document was largely the work of Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur and his occupation staff, who had prepared the draft in February 1946 after a Japanese attempt was deemed unacceptable."

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-japanese-constitution-goes-into-effect

[–]boonedj 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

Some land wars in China might beg to differ

[–]villain717 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'm pretty sure Japan is the only country to have an atomic bomb(s) dropped on them after they provoked a conflict, and after they had already gotten most of their military killed because of said conflict. So China can beg to differ all it likes.

[–]supersoup40 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Honestly the atomic bombs were nothing compared to the firebombing. Sure, the nukes were powerful force packed into a tiny shell, however if you compare the destruction and loss of life they caused to conventional bombing methods they were much much smaller.

[–]CrossYourStars 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't know why you got downvoted. Fuck you for having an opinion I guess.

Anyways, i personally don't agree. The atomic bombs were on a completely different level in terms of magnitude of devastation. Particularly when you consider it was done by a single bomb per target. The thought of a fleet of bombers all loaded with one of these bombs was enough to scare Japan into surrendering.

[–]the-ferris 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That and the US was attacking civilian targets vs. Japan attacking Military targets.

[–]m4011972 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I think that honour goes to Inalchuq, governor of Otrar, whose men murdered two groups of envoys sent by the Mongol empire. In revenge the Mongols abandoned their ongoing invasion of China, rode across Eurasia and destroyed Otrar to the point that no two bricks laid atop each other. Inalchuq was executed when the silver hee offered as a bribe to the Mongols was poured down his throat. Also this post is very tasteless.

[–]_mapporn_ 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The complete destruction of carthage by the romans is up there as well.

[–]231rabidkoalas 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think /r/MURICA is leaking

[–]Asador 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Unit 731 was pretty bad, although I don't think it was the WORST in history...

Hitler and Nazi experiments were pretty bad...

[–]crazyfluteteacher 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

At least the Nazi leadership was prosecuted. The only Japanese criminals actually prosecuted were the ones captured by the Soviets. The actual leadership in unit 731 was given immunity in the United States in return for information on the very same research they'd been conducting.

[–]fortuneandfameinc 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Despite the nuclear overtones, I think getting involved in a land war in Asia is the greater blunder.

[–]thx1138- 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I feel like Japan had been doing way way worse to other countries for quite a while by the time this happened.

[–]M_Allen108 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

And now they're actively rewriting their own history books in an attempt to pretend none of it was their fault :P

almost forgot the Source

[–]NotUserFriendly 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/murica

[–]GMOogway -5ポイント-4ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is fucking hilarious.