This was at a point when Germany was very irritated about the way the American navy handled the the U-boat blockade of Britain. They were escorting the convoys heading for Britain further and further into the Atlantic, making the time that U-boats could actually attack shipping shorter and shorter, with British navy free to handle only the last few hundred miles.
The declaration after Pearl Harbor was a solidarity thing (even though Japan didn't show much interest in German interests, for example by staying out of the German-USSR conflict which allowed Siberian troops to be relocated to Europe), it was also a short-term thought. When you look at stats of merchant shipping sunk by U-boats, there's a huge spike in the first half of 1942. This was because the U-boats could also sink American shipping now, including areas like the Carribean. US Navy also was unprepared and had trouble implementing the convoy system, German leadership had foreseen this, but had overestimated the effect: they thought they could cripple the American economy in this way, failing to realize that America is a solid continent with most of the economical and transport systems landlocked. Finally, they had contempt for the American army size (which was virtually nil in early 1942), and simply didn't believe (indeed couldn't even comprehend the possibility) that the Americans might field an army of millions in just a few years.
The declaration after Pearl Harbor was a solidarity thing (even though Japan didn't show much interest in German interests, for example by staying out of the German-USSR conflict which allowed Siberian troops to be relocated to Europe), it was also a short-term thought. When you look at stats of merchant shipping sunk by U-boats, there's a huge spike in the first half of 1942. This was because the U-boats could also sink American shipping now, including areas like the Carribean. US Navy also was unprepared and had trouble implementing the convoy system, German leadership had foreseen this, but had overestimated the effect: they thought they could cripple the American economy in this way, failing to realize that America is a solid continent with most of the economical and transport systems landlocked. Finally, they had contempt for the American army size (which was virtually nil in early 1942), and simply didn't believe (indeed couldn't even comprehend the possibility) that the Americans might field an army of millions in just a few years.
When the fake daddies are curtailed, we have failed. When their roller coaster tolerance is obliterated, their education funds are taken by Kazakhstani phishers, and their candy bars distributed between the Botswana youth gangs, we have succeeded.
- BIG DADDY.
- BIG DADDY.