United Muscovite Nations wrote:The IJ government was evil, but to say that its decision to bomb Pearl Harbor was a totally unprovoked act of aggression that no one could have possibly seen coming is ridiculous. The US government wanted Japan to attack something, because they wanted the war; they just didn't expect it to be the big target that would get hit.
Washington Resistance Army wrote:FDR very much did want into the war and tried his hardest to provoke Japan into attacking. That's not to say the Japanese government wasn't evil, because they were, but we certainly kept kicking the hornets nest.
Although clearly some posters did get my point, so I shouldn't complain too hard.Nap the Magnificent wrote:It's not revisionism to say that Japan felt goaded into attacking because of American actions. Revisionism is saying the Rape of Nanking didn't happen or something. Just because Americans don't like hearing that they did things that contributed to the descent into war between the two empires doesn't mean it isn't true. I know Americans like thinking that they are some unfucked virgin in a world full of sluts, but America is one and placing severe economic sanctions on your enemy to goad them is a classic foreign policy maneuver that has been done many times in history; I'm kind of surprised some people actually think that America's decisions had absolutely zero role in Japan deciding to finally strike.