Posted on 12/07/2023 10:16:59 AM PST by Enlightened1
I don’t believe it either.
Actually it started in the aftermath of the Japan-Russo war, which was a big vivctory for Japan and big defeat for Russia. From there Japan felt it could expand its empire to Korea and Manchuria and it could get the European trade and colonial enclaves out of Asia, if those enclaves were trying to shut out Japan, which some were.
I do not support what imperial Japan did.
But from a cultural aspect, from a cultural view, any young Asian looking out at their world at the time saw imperial European colonias all over Asia, and America in the Philippines, so, to them, how was Japanese actions to be seen as any different. From an Asian perspective it most likely looked like a clash of competing empires only one of which was Asian.
The only thing is, we defeated Japan, only to get an even worse enemy in Communist China out of the deal.
Yah but war is the health of the state!
That’s why I say the Spanish-American War was the start.
It increased our presence in the Pacific, which required a much bigger US Navy presence there.
We really couldn’t be secure in both oceans without the help of the Royal Navy, so we were beholden to supporting Britain in the two World Wars.
> Kimmel murmured to his communications officer, Commander Maurice “Germany” Curts <
I must admit that this statement startled me. Because I first read it as:
Kimmel murdered his communications officer, Commander Maurice “Germany” Curts
May have been.
Great post!
An issue that compounded the matter was that our people had underestimated how good the Japanese were. They saw the Japanese as short-sighted monkey looking incompetents. Pearl Harbor taught them differently.
The Kimmel family has fought long and hard to redress the wrong done to Admiral Kimmel and General Short. But the enduring FDR butt boys of history won’t have it.
Truth!
It is my non scholarly impression that the official u.s. foreign policy up to wwii was strict neutrality , modeled after Swiss neutrality, inspired by Washington’s farewell address. Japan did not officially attack the us until Pearl Harbor. After wwii the u.s. relinquished the policy of neutrality as failed, citing wwii as evidence of failure. If so, all I.s. Policy after wwii is premised upon lies.
Possible, but to what end? If Hitler hadn’ t declared war on us, it probably been at least 2 years till we went to war with Nazi Germany.
Why though? It would not have brought us to war with Nazi’s for a while. Luclky, Hitler eas a moron
FDR probably thought the Japanese could not do too much to actually hurt the USA.
My supposition is he was surprised at the amount of damage they did.
In 1923, General Billy Mitchell predicted that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor after a year-long inspection tour of the Pacific. Mitchell was sent on this tour so his superior’s could be rid of him for a while as Mitchell was a pest. He missed the time of day by 25 minutes.
https://stephenambrosetours.com/the-80th-anniversary-of-the-predicted-attack-at-pearl-harbor/
“In 1923, his immediate superior, General Mason Patrick, succumbed to the folly of appeasement and sent Mitchell on a year-long “inspection” tour of the nations in the Pacific to “gather information.” In reality, Patrick just wanted to silence his voice and get him away from the press and the reaches of far Pacific Ocean seemed perfectly suited.
But Mitchell took his mission to heart and did a complete inspection of all the nations including Japan, and compiled his findings in a classified, 328-page report detailing just how and where Japan would attack. It was promptly hidden. Most likely because his report detailed how and where the war Japan would start, and how the U. S. should attack to win it.
Mitchell concluded that to begin the war, Japan would attack Pearl Harbor by air. He wrote these prophetic words:
“Attack will be launched as follows: bombardment, attack to be made on Ford Island at 7:30 a.m.
“Attack to be made on Clark Field (Philippine Islands) at 10:40 a.m.”
His time predictions were only slightly off. At Pearl Harbor he missed it by twenty-five minutes; and at Clark Field he missed it by a little over an hour. When the attack came in 1941, the only surprise was to those who had ignored what Mitchell had foreseen.”
I have spent my life studying the sources of this “comprehensive research.”
“Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war.”
What a load of baloney, as is fore-knowledge of the attack.
There are a LOT os fascinating things to talk about viz. the plan,
but THIS is bombastic eyewash.
This is utter fake moon landing hoax garbage. FDR had a lot of faults but he was not a traitor.
Take a mass of data. A million facts. In that million facts are 200,000 that point at the Philippines as a target. There are 50 that point to Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were just that good at sneak attacks.
In fact the US Navy’s opinion was that (no shyt) the Jap pilots had bad eyesight and poor balance and that the Jap planes were like kites made of rice paper. In reality their pilots were combat vets and some of the best trained in the world. And the Zeros were some of the best naval aircraft in the world as well.
The Japanese completely bamboozled FDR and the Navy. This conspiracy nonsense is just some attempt to pretend otherwise.
I bet he was just trying to get out of the blame he deserved for getting his @$$ handed to him by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Yes. Still true at Guadalcanal where the Japanese wreaked havoc on an unprepared US Navy for the first months. The IJN was the master of night battle and handed the USN it’s own @$$ for some months. Only after the more incompetent US brass were either killed or fired did the USN begin to dominate the IJN.
Prior to WW2 the Navy promoted officers more on their ability to handle liquor than more mundane things like their ability to fight the enemy
FDR could appear to stand up and move if his son (or somebody else) supported his weight, but I doubt he could dance a jig.
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