Thread by @JimmyFalunGong

I've heard a lot about Soviet inefficiencies in the economy, but getting into Imperial Japan, apparently it was also a total shitshow

they had entire divisions in China that didn't have rifles, but remember, "we had to nuke them or else we would've lost a million troops invading"

they ran out of shoes too. yeah, I don't think this would've been a dozen Iwo Jimas

now salt shortages; they were selling sea water at a premium in cities, that's how fucked up they were