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by littlestymaar 681 days ago
So did the Germans, but it's not because the biggest industrial power on earth (in both demography and industrial output), with its capacities fully intact because the war never took place there, that smaller countries diminished after years of blockade and critical infrastructure bombing can do it too…

If the Japanese projected their own capacity on the US, they were ripe for a bad surprise.