Coloradostoneman t1_iy2bcub wrote on November 28, 2022 at 5:04 AM

Reply to comment by Raspberries2 in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

I think they would have gone to some pretty extreme efforts to not go to war with us.

When you look at most of the basic industries for war, the US had a HUGE lead over the rest of the world. And the US industrial heartland was essentially untouchable. Nobody wanted to go to war with the US.