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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. > >And of course the Japanese came out of it best of all. >Their 3 ratio was concentrated in the Pacific Ocean, >The Americans 5 ratio was divided between the Atlantic >and Pacific whilst the aging British 5 ratio was >scattered over the entire globe. > >I really do think that the Washington Conferences were >a pivotal turning point in Imperial History - and one >that is frequently overlooked - if someone were >heading off to do a dissertation or a doctorate on >Imperial History, this would a highly profitable >avenue to research and document
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