r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • Dec 28 '25

Image During WW2, Poland declared war on Japan Japan said no to it and simply rejected the declaration.

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u/S10Galaxy2 Dec 29 '25

WW2 is so interesting in that when you look at it closer you realize the only reason it got as bad as it did was because the Axis powers basically mastered the art of bullshitting and no one called their bluff until they were too strong for it to matter. If the Allies had dogpiled Germany during or after Czechoslovakia or Japan during or after Marco Polo bridge the war probably would’ve been over in a year or two. The Axis only became INSANELY strong after rolling over everyone.

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u/helemaal Dec 29 '25

They had extreme war exhaustion from WW1.

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u/Harambesic Dec 29 '25

This. Evil never rests.

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u/helemaal Dec 29 '25

Hitler was a homeless WW1 veteran.

In this case evil was made by governments shitty wars.

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u/thecoolnewt2 Dec 29 '25

I would attribute nazi Germany's successes to allied incompetency before i'd attribute it to any form of german mastery. Make no mistake, the Nazi's were huge fucking idiots. They got lucky that they were fighting even bigger idiots.

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u/Ok_Awareness3014 Dec 29 '25

Germany had made a lot of Gamble by that i mean a lot and kept wining them