[Turret Gunner A20]

re: # 61

Begin with your first reason for blaming it on the United States and come forward to Pearl Harbor.

[muawiyah]

I think the poster is referring to the theory ~ and it's just a theory of course ~ that when FDR cut off exports of oil to Japan they were left with only a 60 day supply.

They had a choice of running industry for two more months or invading Indonesia to obtain a new source.

Of note they needed to take Singapore and the American fortifications in the Philippines to secure the oil tanker routes from Indonesia to Japan, Korea and Manchuria.

What would you have done?