[SatinDoll]

Because we cut off petroleum sales to them, that’s one of the reasons.

[Gaffer]

We also cut off steel, ore and scrap steel too didn’t we?

[muawiyah]

The proximate cause of the war was cutting off the oil. They had enough on hand in Japan to keep industry going for another 30 days, or they could make an attack on everybody between them and Indonesia where there was oil.

Rather than commit national economic suicide they attacked.

[Flag_This]

"Because we cut off petroleum sales to them, that’s one of the reasons."

And why did we do that, exactly? The story does not start with the U.S. embargo on Japan.