[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Zee

Yeah I'll bet those Japanese commanders thought "nah this won't piss them off", definitely.

actually they did, they did genuinely think that the US would be intimidated by them.

America was trying to stay out of things at the time. America was not a major military power back then.

You don't seem to understand the situation if you don't understand that., America was not the World Power you know it as today, it was just a former british colony.

You really don't understand that America was not a superpower before ww2, do you? America had no interest in being a world power back then.

The people on this forum seem to have no historical perspective, they view everything from the modern lens. You cannot understand history if you look at it from a modern perspective, you can only understand history if you can see it through the eyes of the time.

The narrative is defined by the time.