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I don't know why you're being moderated down. The Japanese had already begun conquering large swaths of East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and so on.
by Perceval 17y ago
I don't know why you're being moderated down. The Japanese had already begun conquering large swaths of East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and so on.
A U.S.-Dutch oil embargo was hardly belligerent compared to the actual conquests of the Japanese.
The grandparent poster reads like they got their information about WWII from the Yasukuni Shrine museum...
- gruseom 17y agoI downvoted because it has nothing to do with the point under discussion, which is whether the US knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened. Imperial Japan certainly was nasty, but "Imperial Japan was nasty, so Donald Gibbs, lisper, and lionhearted are wrong about this factual question" is a non sequitur.