Midway

Tam posted this.  Midway battle from the perspective of the Japanese

I had seen it before, and this sort of history stuff is right in both our wheelhouses.

I am expounding on one part, that struck me, upon rewatch

"The only chance Japan had in winning this war, was if the American carrier fleet was destroyed."

Hmmm.

That may have been the thinking at the upper echelons of the Japanese leadership, but was it right?

Let's say they did take Midway, and then sank all four carriers that came after them and with minimal Japanese losses.  From this momentum they continued, spreading a bit more of their sphere out, raiding on Hawaii, pushing supply lines to Australia further south or even the east to come via the Indian Ocean.

Bad for us.  But does it just delay the allies eventual victory?  Lots of new ships are still on the ways, more than the Japanese can produce.

I don't think it does.  Victory in the Pacific before 1948 still happens.  The Japanese were deluding themselves.  I don't think we'd quit after such a (devastating, surely) loss.