“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?
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?
What childish logic. The fact is that the Japanese WOULD attack us if we interfered IN ANY WAY with their oil and raw material pipelines, and we knew it. The were imperialistic, murderous and belligerent and waging war in China, and run by an Army hell bent on ruling the entire "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere." There was NO WAY they weren't going to attack under ANY conditions of being restrained.
So - given that WORLD WAR is the alternative, what "should" we have done? Well, if we WANTED to fight, we certainly did the right thing. If we didn't, then any student of international politics could have come up with several dozen alternatives to what we DID do.
Roosevelt & Co. wanted the war, not just against Japan but also to get into it in Europe. But they needed a reason the people of the USA would go for. Pearl Harbor was the reason, and the idiot Japanese war machine was the perfect target for their trap.