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sarisataka

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9. It may have been possible due

Reply to vercetti2021 (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 7, 2021, 12:02 PM

Dec 2021

To a weak US economy but still would have been impossible due to logistics.

OTH if the US was still in a depression Japan may not have viewed an economically weak America as a threat so would not have attacked Pearl Harbor.

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