“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve’’. Admiral Yamamoto’s answer on the success of the Pearl Harbor attack.
History would have been very different if the Army fire eaters in Japan took Roosevelt's deal to end the stalemated war in China proper, keep their oil supplies, and looked north to Siberia to deal a death blow to the Soviet Union in the fall of '41 preventing Stalin his reinforcements that blocked the Germans at the gate of Moscow.