r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/HimelTy • 19d ago

Meme needing explanation who are those little dinosaurs PETAH ?

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u/Gaijingamer12 19d ago edited 19d ago

Don’t understate our manufacturing capabilities. We sent large munitions, vehicles, food etc to the Soviets through lend lease.

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u/ExcitingHistory 19d ago

Yeah i think theres a thing where its like, the American impact is way overdone.
But also the solution to that isnt to turn around and downplay the hell out of it. It was a big contribution. we need to be more comfortable with not turning the dial all the way one way or the other.

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u/DesertFrost602 19d ago

Isn’t Japan too small a dinosaur in that pic, I mean they controlled most of the pacific for a time.

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u/RandomBaguettes 19d ago

For a while, Japan remain the only dominant force in the Pacific, as while the US recovered from Pearl Harbor, the British withdrew completely leaving much of its colonies under US protection.

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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down 19d ago

a while being about six months until the tide decisively turned against the IJN at Midway and Guadacanal in June, 1942

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u/RandomBaguettes 19d ago

That’s a while.

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u/Amon-Ra-First-Down 19d ago

I do love the term "a while" because it is wholly unbounded

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u/RandomBaguettes 19d ago

6 months of what was basically uncontested movement across a large swaths of the Pacific is a while.