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Japan started the war against US, gambling on a quick victory based on many unrealistic assumptions.

Japan would destroy the US pacific fleet by surprise and dominate the pacific ocean, threatening west coast of USAmericans, spoiled by materialism, would not have the determination to make the sacrifices needed to win the war, be it suffering under the threat of war or sending their sons to die in brutal battlesThe democracy of US would see the people forcing the government to sue for peace with Japan, in case the government would want to fight

Therefore, long before 1945, when the Americans showed their determination to stop at nothing short of Japan’s “unconditional surrender”, the fate of Japan was doomed.

To me, that point was as early as Doolittle’s bombing raid of Tokyo, merely 4 months after Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese realized that

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