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What if Japan had ignored the British request for aid in the Pacific and joined the Central Powers, or signed a separate peace and switched sides in 1915? With the balance of dreadnoughts between the British and German fleets so close, would the British dispatch any ships to try to hold off Japanese activities in the Pacific or would they be forced to let Japan run rampant in the Pacific? Does it change the ground situation for the Allies, who will at the very least be unable to justify moving soldiers out of their Pacific territories and to Europe while they are directly threatened? Also, how likely is such a move to inspire a US declaration of war, seeing as the US has historically only done so in instances of direct attack?
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