WWII

[Zen Badger]

Taking on the Russians while the Japanese were undefeated would have been madness.

Not really, at least as far as the Japanese were concerned, they were only a few months away from defeat anyway.

Don't forget Admiral Yamamato's comments that if they didn't win in 6 months they were doomed.

And he was right.

One could make the valid claim that the WORST thing the Japanese did was attack Pearl Harbor.

If they had just gone ahead and attacked in Malaysia etc,thereby attacking the possesions of colonial powers that were occupied by the Germans or too busy fighting in Europe to effectively deal with them, it would have made for easy conquests.

Roosevelt would've struggled to make a case for war in the face of the strong isolationist movement in the U.S.

Pearl Harbour united America in a way that no amount of propaganda could ever have done( and for the cost of three obsolete ships,quite cheap when you think about it)