General Minoru Genda, an Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician served in World War Two. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor and Midway.
As the flight officer, it was his responsibility to develop an air defense plan for the fleet during the Battle of Midway. When asked by Admiral Yamamoto what their plan was if the American aircraft arrived, Genda replied, “We will defeat them!”
As it turns out, Genda was not only wrong, but horribly so. At the Battle of Midway, American pilots in planes that were far inferior to the Japanese, sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers and downed many Japanese aircraft. Many more Japanese planes sank with their carriers, or landed in the sea, their pilots rescued by the Japanese navy.
The Japanese High command sent the surviving pilots to remote airfield in the Solomon chain, notably Rabal. Many never returned home to their families.
Later, after the war, Genda called Midway, “The fruit of arrogance.”
Trump said the day after Putin invaded Ukraine, that Putin was smart for “just walking in and taking it.” Four years later, no believes Ukraine will fall. Many think Putin will. We know Trump is gone in about two years and some change. Hmmm, a lot of change.
Trump bombed Iran at the behest of Israel. The missiles flew and Trump, overstimulated by the fireworks, demanded “unconditional surrender,” but that never happened. Record high gas prices and a depletion of our missile supply did happen. But Trump was never truly prepared to go to war with Iran. Bolstered by his kidnapping of the president of Venezuela, Trump might have thought he could bully his way through the Middle East.
Trump was terribly wrong, more so than even Genda but for the same reasons. Trump is incapable of understanding why he’s lost the war.
Iran is a land of mountains and the people there have been there for quite some time.
Persia was a civilization two thousand years before America was formed. Their sense of history goes back a lot longer than a fat man painted orange wearing diapers.
The Japanese had every reason to be self-assured in war. They had run amok in the waters off Southeast Asia, and had taken the Philippines, wrecked Pearl Harbor, sank British ships and had taken Singapore, a trillion dollar asset in today’s money, and no one could stop them.
But the Americans knew they were coming, and the Japanese were caught out of position, and with many of their planes with dry tanks.
Trump went into the war with Iraq without any considerations as to how to end the war. He thought “unconditional surrender” would occur on the first day, the day he first declared he had won the war, and from that point on, Trump has simply no idea what to do.
China is helping Iran. Iran with that help, had targeted and destroyed American bases in the region. Now, Trump is scrambling to rebuild and restock, and rearm places he doesn’t have the wherewithal to defend. He’s lost, totally lost, the Strait of Hormuz to the Iranians. The Red Sea is in jeopardy and midterms are racing towards Trump like a wet box of Depends.
And Trump is still in the Epstein Files. Thousands of times.
Take Care,
Mike
CAI, perfection!
That and so much more.
Trump is also releasing massive amounts of oil from our strategic oil reserves; leaving us very weak if this oil blockade continues. He has no plan, he did not consult with any sane people before launching this stupid war and he put a talk show host with no relevant experience in charge of the DOD.
I see stupid people and some idiots put them in charge.
Keith, he’s better he can find an exit before people find out.
He’s so inept at so many things I still don’t understand how he was even a candidate, much less how he won. He is a skid mark on humanity. How anyone is fooled by this buffoon is utterly mind boggling to me. It scares me that there are people stupid enough to believe this idiot. Our education system needs a major overhaul.
Racism is his base. Nothing else matters to them other than that he hates minorities just like they do. The rest was just a poorly informed electorate, that is mostly the fault of a press who didn’t do their job and the fault of a press who are nothing but right wing propagandists.
CAI, I would like to say that America is not nearly as racist as it appears but I think the truth is that it is worse.
And it’s worse because now they feel safe enough to come out from under their rocks
In my estimate, about 1/3 are hardcore racists. Which tracks, as his popularity tended to hover around those numbers for the longest time, despite a poor economy, rising prices and destruction of safety nets that many of them rely on. These hardcore racists believe free things from the government are fine as long as “those” people don’t get any.
CAI, that seems accurate!
Chick, the education thing has been a long time coming. We’ve allowed ourselves to be dumbed down to the point people like Trump can talk half America into electing the worst president ever.
Thanks to Reagan who put William Bennet into the the Department of Education who then went and took out civic classes.
The sad thing is, I’ve spoken to his supporters ( a couple I know) who are fooled into believing the FAUX news and everything they say. They truly believe he’s a hero and has done nothing wrong. They believe that the people being gunned down in the streets were criminals or that it was an unfortunate accident. They aren’t racist, they aren’t idiots, they are gullible. I have tried to reason with them and it’s like playing chess with a pigeon. It’s sad really, I know he has hardcore supporters who are racist and disgusting like he is, but I have met people who are seemingly normal people who truly think he gets things done, they believe the rhetoric. It breaks my heart. this country will have so much work to do when that regime is gone.