Recent content by Artatochor

They could take Hokkaido by force, and most likely nothing south of that. Getting the whole of Japan is possible, if they influence the political situation so that the Japanese look at them favorably.

I understand your point, but I'm wondering, how reliably could the US detect Soviets transporting supplies to Japan in areas they haven't fully penetrated? Japan still seems like a good way to expand influence.

Well, the average soldier thought the Soviets were friends, so a war with them would be strange. I admit my idea requires one change to the Japanese decision making- namely, the Japanese must see the Soviets as a lesser evil. Which is possible, IMO.

Stick to the letter of its agreement? I believe Czechoslovakia was, per agreement, supposed to have democratic elections after the war. We know how that ended up. The US must know, declaring wat to the USSR means a war not only on the sea, but on the ground and in the air as well. Do you think...

See post No. 120 for the supposed starvation issue. First, remember that Japan can say to Stalin that it'll leave Manchuria, Korea and China, so the Soviet declaration of war is averted, or the war lasts very shortly. The USSR is led by an opportunist man. The US, an ideological enemy of...

The comment about my age is quite presumptuous. I'm 22.

The Tsushima and La Perouse Straits weren't blocked by surface units. (page 44) Soviet Union can claim that it's sending humanitarian aid. US won't go to war with the USSR. Japan might be defenseless against B-29, but the Soviets aren't.

Several people here claimed that Soviets would not send supplies to Japan, even if Japanese left Manchuria/Korea to them. The Cold War was starting...what makes this battleground any different from battlegrounds where Soviets did enter a proxy war, or countries to whom they gave assistance and...

http://uncensoredhistory.blogspot.com/2012/10/rape-of-japanese-women-by-american.html Also, the rape reports were censored, as ordered by MacArthur. A true discipline-demanding general would allow the bastard to be named, shamed and shot. The blog has pages on German and VietCong crimes...

It can, and here's why: 1. American atrocities were not punished all that often. 2. Americans were pretending to be for freedom and democracy, and then committing crimes. That makes, in my eyes, any crime become doubly appalling. So, yes, to me, all 3 sides in WW 2 are the same.

I was comparing the Vietnamese situation to the Japanese one. Both were heavily bombed. Vietnamese didn't surrender due to starvation. Why would that happen to the Japanese?

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/giangrec.htm This article disputes the starvation assumption. I'll copy the most relevant parts.

Major farming areas exist on Hokkaido. And food production was not completely disrupted in Vietnam, even with defoliants and similar nasties. Japan will not starve as fast as you think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism#cite_note-58 The BBC World Service poll is located on the right side of the screen, after some scroll-down. I'd say Japan has a neutral view on Americans. That's because China and North Korea are scary. So at least the US troops have some use, for...

An attack that avoids giving the US a direct pretext to a war is a nice idea, but the US will have to be dealt with some time. Roosevelt can't declare war without the Congress approving it. A clever Japanese diplomatic campaign that urges the US to act upon its anti-colonialism policy, and leave...