British Guy Reacts to 'AMERICA KINDA HATES WAR' from MrSpherical - 'THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!'

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I react to '"America 'kinda' hates war'" from MrSpherical, which covers the United States entry into World War 2 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, and WWII history more generally. Hope you enjoy!

[@britishguyreacts]

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[@annfrost3323]

I hate when Europeans say America was "late to the war", when the truth is America did not want to get involved in another European war that did not affect our Continent. It was the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbor and the repeated requests from Winston Churchill who personally asked for help when London was being bombarded by Germany, that America decided to fight. As it was well said here, America went all out building airplanes and tanks and recruting and training men to fight and win in Europe. And of course the bombs in Japan helped stop the bloody fighting island by island in Japan.

[@L_87]

Conservative Army vet here. I don’t want any fkn wars. That includes Ukraine

[@L_87]

But if anyone wants to fire first it’s on of course

[@michlo3393]

@@L_87 Keep that big stick ready just in case but have the discipline to keep it on the shelf. I couldn't agree with you more.

[@AceMoonshot]

There were indeed a lot of spies. Many left Hawaii in the days before the attack. In fact, several Japanese ships carrying the appropriate flags to avoid being attacked left the day before carrying lots of Japanese-American civilians that likely were not spies. That , and the Japanese Americans that helped the pilot that was shot down, that led to kidnap and death ( The Niihau Incident ), is one of the defining reasons the internment camps were pushed for.

[@iKvetch558]

Fun reaction to a humorous video. Not surprisingly, a cartoon video about World War 2 history is not really all that great on the history, but this one is not as bad as many others I have seen. There's probably less mythology in this one than in Oversimplified's WW2. Interesting story about the Europe first policy that the USA pursued...it was not until 1944 that the USA really started to send more resources to the European theater than it did towards the Pacific. The initial reason is obviously the fact that the Japanese were attacking, and the USA was going to have to send more stuff and men that way until the Japanese advance was stopped. However, even after the tide had turned in America's favor in the Pacific, the US could still not really send the men and supplies to Europe that they wanted to until after the Battle of the Atlantic had been "won" by the Allies, and the USA could send many more convoys with a much reduced risk of sinkings. 👍

[@meaders2002]

Actually the ABC talks in March of 1941 settle the "Europe 1st" strategy. This was before Pearl Harbor. (ABC=Amer., Brit., Canada) In April immediately after the ABC talks military planners worked jointly on the prioritization of effort. Lend Lease to Russia began in October of that year but was a year ramping up to volume. Stalin wanted more, faster being in fear of being run over by the Nazi juggernaut. By mid 1942 The Soviets saw sustained, significant and rising volumes of material each month. The British north African campaign benefitted from the Lee tanks already sent, the Grant tanks arriiving and the Sherman M4's that began appearing in Egypt starting April of '42. The Merlin engine powering the Spitfires and Hurricanes (and everything else) had been designed to run on 87 Octane gas. Throughout the battle of Britain the US supplied 100 octane (actually 130 octane) Someone in the petroleum industry had figured out how to get the cost of 130 down to about 4 cents a gallon. The Germans used 87 octane except for the Me262. That gave everybody's Merlin a little more juice. After inventing synthetic rubber Ford's tire plant from the River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan was disassembled and shipped to the Soviet Union.

[@meaders2002]

The ABC conference was held in March of 1941, followed by three weeks of military coordinating talks. A,B,C=America, Britain, Canada. The 'Europe First' proposal was raised then. In July of that year, Stalin's government pleaded for relief and made a shopping list of war materiel it would require which Harry Hopkins passed to FDR to survive June's Barabarossa campaign by German Armies. Supplies began to flow from the US in October to the Soviets 1941. Britain began supplying boots, tanks, munitions, foodstuffs and aircraft that same year. Some Lend Lease material sent to Britain was shipped on to the Soviets, their urgency being greater than Britain's (Soviets were hosting 4.5 million badly behaving Wehmacht & SS at the time). On December 7th, the IJN bombed Pearl Harbor, missed the fuel bunkers and the aircraft carriers effectively losing the war by 1:00pm, December 7, 1941 before America declared war against the Japanese Empire. It would take 3 years and 8 months to compel the Imperial Japanese to admit it. The body count would rise to 70-75 million dead worldwide. Three civilians would be killed for every uniformed combatant. One in three dead by the violence of WWII would be a Soviet citizen, civilian or military, man, woman and child.

[@pamforrester844]

Why was i not notified of this magnificence? Hmm, think its on my end, second time , anyway always happy to see you post, this American appreciates the video and commentary you do it right

[@john762x51]

We literally fought Japan and Europe at the exact same time

[@johnf-americanreacts1287]

You are right. If China continues to improve its military technology, and naval power, I can see it being a peer power in a war in the pacific. China’s manpower along was the reason for the stalemate in Korea. It was nowhere near as developed then as it is now. That said, China would have to leapfrog over the US to ever be able to project its military power across the globe. I don’t see that happening in the next few decades.

[@generichardson4771]

japan was watching what the US was doing before pearl harbor 3 years before the army air force staged a mock attack on pearl harbor against the navy and won japan watched and thought hmmm i wonder if we could do that too

[@Pete_Finch]

And Japan had gotten out ahead of all the European powers jumping into what would eventually become WW2 in 1937 so no inspiration from Europe was needed

[@PrismaticPlays]

HELLO IM AMERICAN? Not british