“Actually FDR was spoiling to get into the war and he backed the Japanese into a corner.”
FDR embargoed Japan’s supply routes carrying fuel to the Japanese islands - fuel is imported. What was Japan going to do? Obviously, they were going to attack. They were embargoed by Naval ships. Who should they attack? Air bases?
“FDR embargoed Japan’s supply routes carrying fuel to the Japanese islands ,,,,,Japan’s supply routes carrying fuel to the Japanese islands - fuel is imported. What was Japan going to do?”
He did no such thing. We did not blockaid or interdict ANY supply routes. We only refused to sell them goods that they would use for their continuing A-hole act in China. Instead of knocking off their crap and acting right, they decided to expand their war and attack and gain the oil, rubber and other resources in Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
But they were not forced into an attack,,,unless of course you agree that they had a right to continue to do their brutal attack in China with free access to American raw materials. Do you argue we SHOULD have kept the oil and raw materials flowing to the Japanese war machine?
“They were embargoed by Naval ships.”
They were not. Unless i missed the USN interdicting ships sailing FROM the USA towards Japan. We merely created a national policy of not selling to them. I know this is crazy, but Japan was still free to buy oil from the Dutch in SE Asia.
Japan wasn’t forced to do anything aggressive by US policy. They did that on their own and got two nukes in return. Now they are good.