So the proper response to "economic warfare" (which is basically one country favoring it's citizens over anothers) is to launch a massive sneak attack to destroy and kill as much of the other countries military as possible? Interesting take on finance. I guess that justifies the US govt going to war with the South since the South was preparing to wage economic warfare over the cotton trade.
What the US was doing to Japan was hardly merely "favoring its citizens over anothers". It was embargoing Japan, an act of war, especially with an island country that needed to import must of its raw materials; the USA was also surreptitiously fighting Japan (as it was Germany) a la the Flying Tigers in China. Also Roosevelt had frozen Japanese assets and issued a secret ultimatum to Japan, all this kept carefully secret from Admiral Kimmell in Hawaii, the designated fall guy, whose code breaking equipment had been nicely removed shortly before, and all the modern ships, esp. ac carriers were put to sea, and all the old and expendable battleships (and sailors!) were lined up nicely in a row even though, at the very least, the fact that the Japanese fleet had disappeared and gone silent for the prior week, and this in and of itself should have caused a high alert, but of course FDR well knew what was coming. The Japanese code had been broken and intercepted, and, as on 911 (!), emergency supplies were delivered the day before, and FDR's famous post-PH speech was completed the night before.
The US had been unable to provoke Germany into the war that the Jews were demanding, so Roosevelt did the "back door to war" trick as he knew that Germany and Japan had a mutual defense treaty.
When Hitler declared war on teh USA he gave an extraordinary extemperaneous 4 1/2 hour speech describing how he had done everything in his power to make peace with the USA and the UK. This speech, and was, of course, kept top secret from the American canon fodders (as was the real Osama bin Ladin's post-911 speech denying any responsibility).
Their so-called Good War was totally contrived like all their other wars. The Japanese loved Americans. Just a few years before when Babe Ruth visited Japan the crowds that came to see "the living god of baseball" - including the emporer! - were so vast that many were trampled. But the Zio-propaganda of the day depicted the Japanese as hate-crazed maniacal yellow fiends with buck teeth.
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