Was the United States strong before World War II? If we only look at the size of the American army, which is not as large as Poland, we will almost be deceived by the tricks played by the Americans. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The extent to which the United States was strong before World War II can be simply analyzed from a series of international issues after World War I.

If we analyze it superficially, after the Second World War, it was the United Nations system that reorganized the world order, then the system that came out of the First World War was the League of Nations system.

Why did the League of Nations system collapse in the end? It is the League of Nations system, as a system for distributing benefits among the victorious countries, that it itself has a fatal flaw.

This flaw is incompleteness - at the same time that the League of Nations did not accept Germany, the Americans simply flipped the table!

It can be said that the withdrawal of the Americans made the League of Nations, which maintained order, inherently lack legal rationality, and eventually led to the collapse of this institution.

What about outside the League of Nations? The Americans themselves played a Washington system, which at the time seemed equally incomplete, but this system was eventually played by the United States.

The Washington Naval Treaty was born, in which Japan retained 300,000 tons of battleship tonnage, while the U.S. Navy retained a total of 520,000 tons!

At the same time, the world hegemon at that time, who had always regarded the sea and the Royal Navy as his own life, had a total tonnage of 550,000 tons of battleships!

From here, we can take a look at whether the comprehensive national strength of the United States is not so strong that Britain is afraid of three points, will the British use a treaty to cede their hegemonic position?

The countries that signed the Washington Naval Treaty, the others are almost all foils, what is the most direct signal, the strongest signal of this treaty? It was Britain that recognized the international status of the US Navy!

What was the policy pursued by the British Navy before the First World War? The Royal Navy demanded its own fleet, the second and third naval powers combined!

Although it seems to us today that this requirement of the British Navy was a heavy burden for Britain, the British Royal Navy had the strength to crush the navies of other countries before the Battle of Jutland.

The result? Not long after the First World War was over and the United States flipped the table and did not join the League of Nations, the Washington Naval Treaty became a written document for the British Royal Navy to admit that there were people who were "on an equal footing" with themselves!

You must know that at this moment, the British Royal Navy, from soul to body, has eliminated the German High Seas Fleet, the second navy in the world. It should have been the time to take advantage of this opportunity to widen the gap in the size of the navy!

As a result, instead of consolidating its position, the British Royal Navy reached an agreement with the second largest navy in the post-war world to retain an equal number of navies! If the national strength of the United States is not strong, the British will only agree to such conditions if their brains are in water!

Judging from today's point of view alone, how difficult is it for the Soviet Union and the United States, two giants of comparable size, to sign an "INF Treaty"? And how simply did the United States withdraw from the "ABM Treaty" after crushing Russia!

If China were to sign a treaty with the United States today, the content of which would require the United States to recognize in writing that China is qualified to build a naval fleet equal to that of the U.S. Navy, would it be possible?

Don't think that the United States after World War I is not strong anymore, at least after World War I, behind the crumbling Britain, the United States has achieved its own real rise!

In terms of energy, the oil resources controlled by the ancient British Empire are in the far Middle East, and they have to cross a not very peaceful Mediterranean Sea in the middle!

And the emerging resource oil controlled by the United States is at home, and there is also the Gulf of Mexico! This gives the United States an unparalleled advantage in terms of energy security and energy prices.

Britain has a shortage of domestic resources, and has to rely on an increasingly unstable colonial system to replenish blood, but the United States does not have these problems, and industrial raw materials such as rubber can be easily obtained from South America!

Spread out the map and take a look, the world pattern in 1939, the rubber-producing regions, the Philippines, Malaya and other places, are already under the influence of the United States and actually under control.

One-third of the world's oil-producing regions are in the bag of the United States, supporting the three major resources of petroleum, rubber and steel for the development of modern industry, and the United States is the only country among all the powerful countries that has no shortcomings and no transportation obstacles!

In 1930, the United States produced more steel than all European countries combined, and by 1940, because of the collapse of France, the United States had twice as many steel production as all countries in Europe, including the United Kingdom!

Britain is obviously not in league with Germany, so if Britain is not counted, even if Germany can integrate Europe, the steel production capacity that Germany can get in 1940 is only one-third of that of the United States!

If the United States was not a great power in 1940, then which country could be considered a great power? To see whether a country is strong or not, is it only the number of troops?

Well, even if you just look at the number of troops, in 1940, the US Navy fleet actually had the largest navy in the world - you read that right, the first in the world!

Britain had already sunk a number of warships such as the Royal Oak by Germany at this time, and the tonnage of the US Navy had surpassed that of Britain at this time.

The total population of the United States at this time reached 200 million, and the mobilization capacity exceeded 10 million. As the world's largest power, Britain will only have 6 million after full mobilization.

And that's in addition to the contributions of the colonies, including Canada and Australia, but also India and even Burma......

Speaking of neighboring countries, Britain, France, Germany, and a large number of ruthless people are crowded together, of course, they can only maintain a strong military force, and they cannot get out at all.

At this time, the advantages of the United States as a chosen country have begun to appear, and the army can remain small, reduce the burden of national defense to a minimum, and survive the financial crisis safely!

No matter which direction you look at, although Europe is still the center of the world at this time, when the moment when Germany attacked Poland to start World War II, the United States, a country that made a lot of money in silence, actually took on its last shortcoming!

Yes, before World War II, the reason why Europe was still the center of the world, and the reason why the United States did not have the ability to lead the world, was because the United States did not have this tradition and did not have this prestige!

In the eyes of the traditional world powers, the United States lacks the foundation to become a world hegemon, and it lacks the last little bit of qualifications!

But when Hitler turned the tables in Europe, the United States had a chance to rise justifiably - he took over the scepter from his brother Britain and sat on the throne that the British had relinquished!

A very interesting thing can be seen from here, that is, the throne has actually been given up by Britain a long time ago, and the throne has been empty!

The United States did not pull Britain off the throne, but the British themselves walked down, which is why Britain is still a permanent member today, it still retains the heritage, and Great Britain retains the last trace of decency in the war!

It is very interesting to trace the time when the British stepped down from world hegemony at the moment when the Washington Naval Treaty was signed!

The other countries that signed this treaty were only supporting actors, the masses watching the ceremony. The message that this treaty really delivered was very simple: Britain had stepped down from the altar!

Britain recognized the international status of the United States through this treaty, but the United States did not rush to become the target of public criticism.

What is National Wisdom? This is the real wisdom of the country! Through the Washington system, the United States has actually pulled Britain off the throne of power.

However, the United States did not rush to go up, but waited, waiting for President Wilson's other pawn planted after the end of World War I, Germany, to break out again.

It's as if a virus has been planted and waiting for this virus to break out. The United States did not rush to the top, but pushed the world's second, third, fourth, and even fifth to the battlefield before taking the position.

It wants to weaken all potential threats, and use the bombs that were originally prepared for the first place in the world to blow up all the countries that are ready to come from behind!

The rise of the United States is stepping on the corpse of Europe, and in the First World War, the United States watched the fire from the other side, but before the end, it used Wilson's 14 speeches to plant the time bomb of Germany.

You can imagine that if it weren't for Wilson's speech, the United States supported Germany, set up a moral banner for Germany, and retained Germany's industrial blood, what would have been the hatred of Germany caused by the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany was dismembered after World War II and the defeated pact was signed even more humiliating, so why didn't the Germans continue to take revenge? Just think about this, you can see what the United States buried for Europe at that time.

On the other hand, after World War II, the United States spared Japan in Asia, and it is easy to know what the Americans are preparing to do at another time!

The Japan he planted is a time bomb that will destroy the Asia-Pacific region, and once China's rise becomes unstoppable, he will detonate this bomb and turn the Asia-Pacific region into a second Europe.

A country with such a coherent national strategy, a country with such a strong international strategic deployment, and a country that has rehearsed the strategic development trend of almost all countries on the entire planet in the past 100 years!

Zhuge Liang is not a fledgling and is known to have three parts of the world. However, the powerful think tank of the United States can take advantage of the complicated international situation and establish its own country's dominant position for 100 years in one fell swoop.

Even a hundred years ago, who would have dared to say that the country was not strong? Although the United States in 1918 was not as strong as it is today, the national strategy of the United States in that year was 50 years ahead of the world, so how can it be said that it was not strong?

Whether a country is strong or not depends not only on the country's industrial strength, but also on how far the country looks, how clearly it sees, whether the path it takes is correct or not, and how wonderful the way it chooses.

It is a pity that the United States after 1920 has gone faster and faster......