Geon
Donor
I guess it also comes down to defining what it would mean for Japan (or for that matter Germany) to "win."
As long as they held the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island there would be no negotiations with the U.S. Ditto for any other nation who lost possessions.
A while ago I had a conversation on another thread here with someone who asked whether or not the U.S. would have agreed to negotiate if it lost at Midway. I reminded that person as others on this board did that at no time other then 9/11 was the U.S. so infuriated as it was after Pearl Harbor. The general attitude was one of total fury against the Japanese. I cannot see the U.S. accepting anything short of total victory. Any politician suggesting anything short of that would be fortunate if he wasn't at the very least suspected of sedition!
As long as they held the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island there would be no negotiations with the U.S. Ditto for any other nation who lost possessions.
A while ago I had a conversation on another thread here with someone who asked whether or not the U.S. would have agreed to negotiate if it lost at Midway. I reminded that person as others on this board did that at no time other then 9/11 was the U.S. so infuriated as it was after Pearl Harbor. The general attitude was one of total fury against the Japanese. I cannot see the U.S. accepting anything short of total victory. Any politician suggesting anything short of that would be fortunate if he wasn't at the very least suspected of sedition!