>>939065202
Behaving? Me? Never.

Fuck the Italians, those greasy deigos haven't been relevant since the 15th century.

Also, I cannot express how abysmally Operation Pastorius failed. 8 agents came ashore (4 in New York and 4 in Florida) with enough explosives to carry out a 2 year mission of sabotage by destroying infrastructure critical to the war effort as well as close to $200,000 in US currency. They landed on June 13th and 17th respectively and less than 2 weeks later all 8 of them had been arrested without having carried out a single act of destruction. 6 out of the 8 were executed while the other two, who actually IMMEDIATELY defected upon landing and provided information on nazi intelligence as well as who the other agents were and where they were at, were given life senteces. They were granted clemency after the wat by Truman and allowed to return to Germany.

>>938692720
Yes, I fully agree. Though there is a peacefulness in a misty sea of gently rolling green hills.

>>938472663
No, the Japanese ate the Australians.

>>938472721
Riding me? But you're the man, shouldn't I be the one riding you?

They could have been an empire if they focused solely on China like they originally intended. But they decided to gamble on attacking the Brits and especially the Americans in the hopes of a very quick end to the war. The Japanese high command themselves knew it was a gamble, and they knew that if the war dragged on for longer than six months or so after attacking the Brits and the Americans then no matter what they would lose. The gamble was that they would be successful enough in the first six months of the war that the Allies would sue for peace and as part kf the peace treaty they would recognize Japan's territorial gains in Manchuria. The gamble, of course, didn't work. The Doolittle Raid in April 1942, while dling relatively little damage to Japanese infrastructure on mainland Japan, signaled to the Japanese that they had grossly underestimated America's fighting capabilities so quickly after the success of Pearl Harbor as well as greatly boosted the morale of Americans back home. Then on June 4th 1942 the Battle of Midway completely shifted the tide of the war so dramatically that Japan had no hope of ever recovering.

>>936895500
That's what I am making for dinner tonight. I'm just waiting on the vinegar rice to chill. Already got the spicy maki all made up.