Did we push Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor?
What is a total libertarian?
Actually, yes.
Perhaps there is a lesson there.
Roosevelt placed lots of sanctions and ceased selling oil and scrap iron etc to Japan.
Lacking the US as a supplier, the conclusion was reached to find other sources and to eliminate the US as a defender of those sources.
Yes.
And the Jews "pushed" Hitler into shoving them into the ovens.
/mordant sarcasm
Regards,
Your statement is not even relevant.
“Did we push Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor?”
We at least pushed them into attacking us in the Pacific - Japan chose Pearl Harbor, which was likely the best option for them.
“Did we push Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor?”
LOL. Yeah and did the west push Hitler into invading Poland etc. Maybe the Republicans pushed Obama into invading Libya too.
It’s always someone else’s fault with these people. :-)
No. Japan was absolutely bent on a course of war and conquest. Should we have continued to help Japan create more Nanking Massacres by supplying them with oil? I say no.
There are valid arguments for both sides to that question.
The U.S. gave indications that it might eventually go to war with Japan. So the Japanese saw Pearl Harbor as a preemptive strike.
The U.S. and Israel have long supported the Doctrine of Preemptive Strike as a legitimate reason for attacking a nation. It was America's justification for the 2003 Iraq War.
Did we push cartels into drugs???
Perfect
Actions also have reactions.
Escalations that led to war.
America cut off it’s oil exports to Japan for Japan’s invasion of Manchuria. What was America’s interest in Manchuria?
Things like this get outta hand.
Did we push Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor?
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Not only did we, the FDR administration knew the attack would happen in advance and did nothing to stop it.
Yes
Pushed into war?? Hillarious.
Does that mean Putin has no character - falling that easyly into western chess players trap?
If this was a trap by the west (and it’s not) he clearly shows he is not much smarter than a teen age boy full of testosterone in the middle of his puberty!