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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
The Japanese have been gearing up to fight the US since the early 1900's. I think we would have butted heads sooner or later.
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I agree. Two players in the same field - was one too much. Although I think that the Japanese hoped for long time to acchieve a balance of power that resulted in a stable coexistence with America. In the late 30s they maybe started to realise that war with the US would nevertheless be a real possibility in the future, but I think they still hoped to avoid it. Imo the constellation nevertheless was so critical and ripe with potential conflict that the war was unavoidable even if both nations would have hoped to avoid it. Sometimes - things simply do not work the way you wish them to work, and never had a chance to function from the very beginning. It's then called wishful thinking.
And I just have the strange feeling of a deja vu, as if I have dreamed to have written exactly this posting before, right down to every typo I produced and corrected...
