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I think he is saying that FDR stopped selling oil to Japan, in such a way that Japan was provoked to attack the US. That’s why they attacked Pearl Harbor in th
by fosk 4y ago
I think he is saying that FDR stopped selling oil to Japan, in such a way that Japan was provoked to attack the US.
That’s why they attacked Pearl Harbor in the first place: to neutralize the US navy threat in the Pacific while seeking for new oil sources down South.
They were at war with many countries, but they weren’t at war with the US specifically up until that point.
And by the way the US sold oil to Japan to profit from their war machine in Russia, Manchuria and China. It wasn’t until the very end that they stopped selling it.
- diceduckmonk 4y ago> I think he is saying that FDR stopped selling oil to Japan Sure, but then maybe don’t start a war with all of Asia. There was a high degree of grandiosity and hubris where they thought the way out of a losing strategy and resources was to double down and go after more
- fosk 4y agoJust wanted to point out that the US profited from selling oil to Japan so they could invade all of Asia, and they profited for a very long time.
- macintux 4y agoThe U.S. was also in the middle of a mild economic downturn in the 30s, so while I’m sure in hindsight I wish we would have imposed sanctions sooner, I’m not sure I would have done it differently given the exigencies of the time.