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Kirito619 t1_iy1dryz wrote

Reply to comment by Raspberries2 in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

That's not true. Japan wanted to expand control in Asia. They needed oil. USA embargoed Japan so they don't get oiĺ anymore. Japan attacked USA because of oil.

If USA backed off and let them have oil, Japan would never attack them. They would focus on Asia.

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awolbull t1_iy1qchg wrote

You forgot to include why the US embargoed oil.

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Raspberries2 t1_iy1edxv wrote

No. Japan was creating an empire which means many attacks on many nations were to come.

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Coloradostoneman t1_iy2bcub wrote

I think they would have gone to some pretty extreme efforts to not go to war with us.

When you look at most of the basic industries for war, the US had a HUGE lead over the rest of the world. And the US industrial heartland was essentially untouchable. Nobody wanted to go to war with the US.

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Kirito619 t1_iy1ejus wrote

An empire in Asia, they were not strong enough to wage war across the world.

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skoomski t1_iy1rfkl wrote

So in your logic they attack the US and then they lift the embargo? They captured the Dutch East Indies and their oil did them little good as they did not have the expertise to refine and never had enough ships to transport it. It was a historic blunder based on hubris no matter how you cut it.

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tagyhag t1_iy274qk wrote

A LOT of Asia was owned by the West back then.

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