I wish I could disagree, but I cannot.
As for those who cite that Japan attacked us: The very same closet communist FDR provoked war, not only by embargoes, but by moving the Pacific Fleet a full continent’s width away from native soil, thus encroaching on Japan’s part of the world.
That was done in Summer 1940, just over a year before the attack. Note well: Hawaii was a Territory, not a State!
FDR wanted war with Germany, but to guarantee acceptance by isolationist Americans, he had to provoke an Axis ally of Germany into attacking us first.
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Believe the communist: The Pearl Harbor disaster was not an accident. It was planned - like the current events crippling America.
Churchill and probably Roosevelt were aware Pearl was going to be attacked.
Check out the book OP JB (operation James Bond) to learn about it and how they kayaked into Berlin and captured Hitler’s Secretary.
The oil embargos and the move of the Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor were in direct response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. In addition to Japan’s ongoing invasion of China.
That act surrounded the Commonwealth of the Philippines (American territory) on three sides with Japanese controlled territory.
America would have been at war with Japan with the first bomb landing in the Philippines, Guam, or Wake. Pearl Harbor was not needed, and almost didn’t happen, since it was a supporting act to the invasion of Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.
FDR provoked nothing, he responded appropriately to defend our nation.
You can criticize his domestic policies all you want, but he was right on the money in dealing with Germany and Japan.