On 2019-09-15 9:04 a.m., A Moose in Love wrote:
> On Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 8:24:42 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> dsi1 wrote:
>>> I'm not so sure that would have happened. Hawaii had a pretty
>>> good relationship with Japan which recognized the Kingdom of
>>> Hawaii as an independent country. You can believe that Japan
>>> would have taken over Hawaii but the reality is that Hawaii was
>>> not stolen by the Japanese. Your fantasy is totally
>>> self-serving.
>>
>> Given the chance, I have no doubt the Japanese would have stolen
>> Hawaii. Look at history in the early years of the war...they
>> invaded eastern China and treated those people like crap. At the
>> time, they were just as evil as the Nazis.

The Japanese would have stolen Hawaii? Isn't that what the Americans did?
>>
>> Hitler's big mistake was turning on his Russian allies. Japan's big
>> mistake was turning on the American Navy based in Hawaii and
>> awakening a sleeping giant.
>>
>> Ted Nugent: "The Japanese turned on us and we melted them!" Note:
>> that's no hearsay. He played a concert right here in Virginia Beach
>> on a beach stage one year and I was right up front in the crowd
>> when he said that. That even shocked me. Figured the city would
>> never invite HIM back again for a concert and so far....no more Ted
>> Nugent concerts. LOL
>
> Nugent's a dickhead. Agree about Hitler. He should not have
> attacked CCCP. But I don't think that he considered that regime to
> be a true ally. The Soviets bled profusely during that war. Like
> the saying goes: 'America supplied the money, and the Soviets
> supplied the blood'.


I guess that is the price they paid for having enabled Hitler to take
Poland, which started the whole thing rolling.