It's basically the same situation. FDR got into office and wanted war with Japan. He was asking how to get it done with his first meeting with his military counsel. Weird that the US has spent the better part of 7 years painting Russia as the devil and the reason the country is struggling.
Dan Carlin goes over the sanctions in his Supernova in the East series on the eastern front of WWII. He even says Japan saw they would run out of resources with the US sanctions so they were facing down a high chance of defeat or going in preemptively in hopes of striking a victory from a losing position. Instead it was the perfect motivation for US to enter the war and next thing Japan is being fire bombed to shit until the bombs were dropped.
US is using the same playbook against Russia and hoping for the same result. I just don't think we have nearly the power we did back then. Especially considering the US jumped into WWII late when resources were already low and people had been fighting for years at that point. US is looking light on resources, just admitted defeat against a 3rd world country and purged a bunch of people over vaccination status.
Right now the US is closer to Japan's position in WWII than US's and that's one hell of a gamble when the US isn't the only ones with nukes this time.
These people are gambling the world because of their pride.
It's basically the same situation. FDR got into office and wanted war with Japan. He was asking how to get it done with his first meeting with his military counsel. Weird that the US has spent the better part of 7 years painting Russia as the devil and the reason the country is struggling.
Dan Carlin goes over the sanctions in his Supernova in the East series on the eastern front of WWII. He even says Japan saw they would run out of resources with the US sanctions so they were facing down a high chance of defeat or going in preemptively in hopes of striking a victory from a losing position. Instead it was the perfect motivation for US to enter the war and next thing Japan is being fire bombed to shit until the bombs were dropped.
US is using the same playbook against Russia and hoping for the same result. I just don't think we have nearly the power we did back then. Especially considering the US jumped into WWII late when resources were already low and people had been fighting for years at that point. US is looking light on resources, just admitted defeat against a 3rd world country and purged a bunch of people over vaccination status.
Right now the US is closer to Japan's position in WWII than US's and that's one hell of a gamble when the US isn't the only ones with nukes this time.
These people are gambling the world because of their pride.