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“But we weren’t about to pressure the Euros into give up their colonies.”

And even less than that. The Japanese would have been happy with German colonial possessions in the Pacific. They were administered as part of German New Guinea and they included the German Solomon Islands (Buka, Bougainville and several smaller islands), the Carolines, Palau, the Marianas (except for Guam), the Marshall Islands and Nauru.

The Japanese expected to be cut in after Versailles as they were allies in WWI. And they had quite a history fighting Russia and the Soviets.

Sounds like you’re taking the exactly wrong message from that scene. The guy who got punched was the low life.

Marshall had only to pick up his desk phone to reach Pearl Harbor on the transpacific line.

My mom was a telephone operator back then. You didn’t just “pick up the phone on your desk”. You called an operator who started to BUILD a connection. As in calling the next operator who plugs you in to the next. First across America, then across to Hawaii? And then in Hawaii, on Sunday morning, good luck finding the recipient or duty officer. Once you have built the connection (and hopefully not dropped in along the way) and your party is available on the other end, you can talk.

Telegram was often faster in those days with the proper routing. Also telegram was more accurate. Voice connections were not always clear, especially outside the USA.

To this day Mexicans answer the phone “bueno?” (good?)
That is because when the phone rang the first thing the operator needed to know is if they had a good connection.

This article has a few useful things, but it’s mostly slander and hindsight.

On November 25th, approximately one hour after the Japanese attack force left port for Hawaii, the U.S. Navy issued an order forbidding U.S. and Allied shipping to travel via the North Pacific. All transpacific shipping was rerouted through the South Pacific. This order was even applied to Russian ships docked on the American west coast. The purpose is easy to fathom. If any commercial ship accidentally stumbled on the Japanese task force, it might alert Pearl Harbor.

So the US Navy, diverted commercial traffic, to make sure they didn’t discover the Jap fleet and alert Pearl Harbor? 100% Bullcrapo.

Bunch of bullshit.
We “provoked” them by freezing assets, not letting them use OUR canal, and cutting off oil and scrap steel exports to them?

The Japs had just finished the rape of Nanking that even shocked the Nazi diplomats in town.

“and on November 26th — just 11 days before the Japanese attack — delivering an ultimatum that demanded, as prerequisites to resumed trade, that Japan withdraw all troops from China and Indochina, and in effect abrogate her Tripartite Treaty with Germany and Italy.”

So? We Indochina was French and British and we and the Brits were in China. So what if we told them if you wanna trade with us, you have to withdraw?

Those poor Japanese militarists... they only wanted to conquer Asia and keep trading with us. And the mean old USA cut off them off from US raw materials.

Is the argument we had a responsibility to keep supplying them?

This is crap.

Looks like they learned from El Salvador. The president down there got control of the gangs just that way.!

Ask her why she’s on the warpath about it!

When you see her tomorrow, tell her you’re sorry and you wanna bury the hatchet. Then refer her to the Seinfeld episode.

Why would you listen to a millennial female opinion without laughing?

He’s also a homosexual who lets men bugger him right up the wazzoo. And illegal alien anchor baby.

Bush in a skirt.

HR2 lets most illegals stay and supposedly curtails DHS ability to grant asylum. In reality it will do nothing.
It mandates the awful e-verify that is aimed right at conservatives.
It requires DHS to build 900 miles of fence. (so a “study” will begin and last for years, the fence will be completely inadequate design, and the pace will be abysmally slow). And they will still fly them right over the border as they do now.

This is a set up so they can say they “did something”.

HR-2 is not a border shutdown or deportation. It does not provide a permanent bar to citizenship or green cards if you arrive illegally.

And E-Verify is a horrible idea. Instead of putting the onus on foreigners to provide a green card, every American has to be in the system or you cannot work. Think of the DMV, IRS, VA, Social Security etc. Then imagine having such a system decide if you can work or not!

This is like a “no fly” list. How easy would it be to freeze you out from employment with a mistake or a corrupt federal agent. Think FBI, think Garland, think Louis Lerner.

E-verify is a trap to lure America into biometrics and a national ID.

It’s unnecessary if you simply deport illegals every time you catch them.

“Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) are expected to speak.”

These same sphincters stonewalled Trump’s wall for his entire term. A billion here, a few hundred million there, etc.
He said for about 18 billion he could get it done. These anuses controlled the Senate and House the first two years and flipped him the finger.
Now they can find 50 billion at a time for Ukraine.

And Cornyn was the worst of the lot.

He is one of two things. Either a closet pervert, OR one of the guys who is into that “Christianity as a business model”. In the later, they run things like a business, counting church openings, attendance, book sales, etc etc.

“Joel O. Rainey, Ph.D. is a pastor, missionary, and mobilizer of churches to accomplish God’s global mission. He has been involved in planting more than 100 new churches in North America, has trained pastors and church planters nationally, and internationally, and has intercultural experience on five continents.”

This mentality causes him to dilute it every way he can in order to attract more “customers”. He isn’t a minister, he is running a franchise model and is getting wealthy.

Replacing the Greyhound gives you a much shorter legged plane that is far more dangerous and complex. The Greyhound has had 8 crashes since 1964. The Osprey has doubled that in a third of the time. God only knows how much worse it would be if they did it by flight hours.

https://youtu.be/BUE0PPQI3is?t=19

Fixed the glitch....

The border is open. 12000 crossed yesterday, and by government math that is probably 20,000. Around 10 million since Biden took office. All completely unvetted.
The economy is a house of cards and the world is making every effort to de-dollarize. A bad economy inspires crime.
The democrats have conducted mass release of violent prisoners. According to the Dept of Education, 85% of black students are illiterate.
The country has been flooded with Sackler Oxycontin and cartel Fentanyl.
The junta that came to power in 2020 after the DC coup has fully corrupted the FBI and DOJ. We have mass arrest of political prisoners. Legitimate alternate GOP elector slates are being arrested in three states.
The military is enthralled with perversion and woke and race.
The DC government is pushing for wars with China, Iran, and Russia, all at once.
Academia, media and numerous government figures speak of me as a white male in pre-genocidal terms. Academia doesn’t even think it’s wrong anymore.
Palestinian terrorists abound in our streets. In mass numbers the attack jews, anything Christmas or “American”.
Police are being defunded and arrested for doing their jobs.

.... and you think I’m giving up my firearms? GFY

Yeah, that was a GOPe move from Hannity. That squirrel wasted a precious question on a question like that. Hannity is a real POS.
I have never seen the slightest original thought or any intellect from that man.

The final clue was when he started having a live studio audience on his show. His last move is to jazz them up. Lord knows how they manage to find people to sit in the audience.

And then he played 18 holes of golf and scored 16 holes in one! The propaganda is getting comical.