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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Technically, but there was never a serious threat of Japan encroaching on our territory besides a few pissant islands like the Aleutians and Midway. It was just offense as defense.
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They were fanatical about winning dominion over those "pissant" islands. If the Allies hadn't gone in with flame throwers and burnt them out after they were already hunkered down the Japanese would have developed infrastructure and Navy bases to further their agenda. They had Korean slave labor as well. If those islands were strategically irrelevant the Allies wouldn't have sacrificed so much to control them.
And Hitler was clear he wanted all non-Aryans dead. He wasn't particularly prone to compromise.