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>>>>What would we be fighting over? >>>>It wouldn't have happened. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Let us just say the WW2 never happenned. And the >>>>>battle was instead war between UK and US in 1945 >who >>>>>wins. Remember the US is now a superpower that >>>>>time.The war of independence style war was held in >>>the >>>>>20th century. Please don't use this question to >spit >>>>>anti-American venom, for once! >>> >>>A better way of putting the question would be, at >what >>>point did the US become a more powerful nation than >>>the UK? >>> >>>I would say sometime between the wars. >> >>I would agree but would be more specific and would >>date it to the Washington Naval Conferences. This >>categorically equalised the American and British >>fleets in the famous 5:5:3 ratios. This meant that the >>Royal Navy was no longer unchallenged on the high >seas. >> >>These conferences coincidentally also detached Britain >>from its alliance from Japan and so helped spin the >>Japanese into the Axis orbit for World War Two. Making >>Pearl Harbour something of an own goal! > >Those ratios were worked out on tonnage too, and >whilst the Royal Navy was mostly WWI ships soldiering >(should that be sailoring?) on past their sell-by date >the US Navy was more modern.
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