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Was this really the motivation, or a post war found justification? Regardless, we'd then need to consider what were the military options to defend chinese civil
by fulafel 3y ago
Was this really the motivation, or a post war found justification? Regardless, we'd then need to consider what were the military options to defend chinese civilians (eg bombing (nuking?) Japanese military assets there).
- himinlomax 3y agoAtrocities committed by Japan in China were very much a concern in the US (and even in Germany for that matter!) already before the war, and were incontrovertibly the reason for the US foreign policy towards Japan then, and thus arguably a distant cause for Pearl Harbor. You'd have to argue that the US had forgotten about it, and then not gotten the memo on the atrocities committed since then.
- refurb 3y agoDoes it have to be the motivation? It's true in either case.