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.
FDR was telling a military junta to choose between war and military withdrawal.
It was like telling a thief to choose between stealing and getting a job.
Certainly the thief is culpable for committing the crime but perhaps there are other less deleterious ways of dealing with him that should be explored.
[Lacking the US as a supplier,...]
Couldn’t they have just “bought” what they needed from another supplier instead of invading and stealing it?
American racism at work again, targeting the poor yellow people.’
Completely unrelated to the invasion of China, rape of Nanking, militant nationalism under Tojo and the desire to rule SE Asia.
Your sense of history is enviable.
DING! DING! DING!