• Zagorath
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    5 days ago

    all major global powers except for the United States were at war

    Yes, but they were effectively separate wars. The UK and France were not concerned with what Japan was doing (yet…that would come later, and admittedly for separate reasons than America’s even later involvement), and Japan was not concerned about Poland or France.