As an 80s kid in Australia, everything about America was bigger and better. I remember my 4th grade teacher telling us we would be speaking Japanese in class if the yanks hadn’t stepped in and “saved us” in WWII.
that kind of reverence has completely evaporated now. Even people who dont pay attention to politics know that Trump caused this fuel crisis as a distraction from his habit of raping children.
That’s even funnier when you know the Japanese army was already at its breaking point from the invasion of China. They might have been able to pull off an invasion of Australia since all the population is coastal and the British Navy was busy sinking the Italians but they were bleeding out before Pearl Harbor.
If they could establish a supply chain then taking control of the arable region of Western Australia would have been trivial, that’s my understanding anyway.
Not to mention the soft power forever lost.
This will be remembered as the dumbest error in geopolitical strategy.
This is how empires die.
As an 80s kid in Australia, everything about America was bigger and better. I remember my 4th grade teacher telling us we would be speaking Japanese in class if the yanks hadn’t stepped in and “saved us” in WWII.
that kind of reverence has completely evaporated now. Even people who dont pay attention to politics know that Trump caused this fuel crisis as a distraction from his habit of raping children.
That’s even funnier when you know the Japanese army was already at its breaking point from the invasion of China. They might have been able to pull off an invasion of Australia since all the population is coastal and the British Navy was busy sinking the Italians but they were bleeding out before Pearl Harbor.
If they could establish a supply chain then taking control of the arable region of Western Australia would have been trivial, that’s my understanding anyway.