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Originally posted by m21sniper
You have to consider a Germany that is master of Europe and has no other focus but to build a fleet of amphibs and warships to take the fight to the US.
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As if Britain was defenseless, which is not only not true, but were welll on their way to fielding heavy bombers, which began service BEFORE the US government arrived in any numbers. Further, Britains light and medium bombers were having their way as well since Goering had broken the back of the Luftwaffe's offensive capability in 1940. You remember that, do you not?
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And certainly by 1946 the empire of Japan could've invaded a poorly defended West Coast.
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The west coast was never poorly defended.
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Remember, an isolationist America is not a well armed America.
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You must be kidding? America was heavily armed by 1938-39, and became more so as time went on. Isolationism does not mean defenseless, no matter what your socialist teachers said.
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If the Germans hit us from the East and the Japs from the West in 1946 simultaneously,
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With what? Neither of those countries had any such capability and certainly the Japanese had no such goals. The Japanese saw themselves as logical replacements for the european powers that had dominated southeast, east, and the western pacific areas for over 100 years, and that's about it. They had no ambitions beyond that, and considering how difficult it would have been to keep all of that, it's likely they'd have had a contraction back to a governable area.[/b][/quote]
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and we are still flying around in P-40s and driving around in M3A1 Lee tanks, well....it would take us a long time to un-funk ourselves from such a mess.
We'd still win, but it would be really ugly for a while.
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The Lockheed P-38 production deliveries began in the summer of 1941, the P-51 flew in October of 1940, the P47 in the summer of 1941. None were dependent on US government involvement in a war, all were funded by congress to give defensive capability meaning. Most medium and heavy bombers flew then as well, the first B-17's were on their way to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked.
Your notion that America would have been defenseless in 1945-46 isn't rationally based as easily seen.