[DuncanWaring]

...there are those who would argue that actually, FRD’s oil embargo on Japan was the first act of war.

Only if you ignore the previous five years of the Imperial Japanese Army running amok through China, establishing the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Perhaps the Rape of Nanking rings a bell.

[PurpleMan]

“Only if you ignore”

I’m not the one saying it. The word was “those.” i.e. historians who say it.

(So then, for the sake of discussion, if one repeats an arguement, he immediately takes ownership of it? Got it.)

[Polynikes]

“Perhaps the Rape of Nanking rings a bell.”

As does Unit 731,100,516,200 and a whole list of other “special research” units. One of their projects was a ceramic bomb loaded with bubonic plague laden fleas. It was to be used against the Western US mainland. They did actually test it against the Chinese