Pearl Harbor would have been legitimate. It was still a dirty move to bomb it without a formal declaration of war.
“Pearl Harbor would have been legitimate. It was still a dirty move to bomb it without a formal declaration of war.”
“Good” King FDR took care of that by blockading Japan.
From what I understand the Japanese were going to declare war a few minutes before the planned attack. The Japanese Embassy in DC screwed up. This was based on the tradition of ninjas before assassinating someone sleeping would wake the person up then commit the deed.
We really need to treat this “”apologies for historic wrongs” fetish of the political Left as the childish nonsense it is.
Current people of Japan, Germany, the US, the UK etc have nothing to apologize for. They had no role in the polices and the decision the political Leftist are demanding apologies for.
It merely an intellectually infantile debate tactics.
The left wants to argument that because of this irrelevant historic fact (i.e. segregation, slavery, “war crimes” etc) you must embrace our radical Leftist political agenda now.
No we don't.
Was it a “dirty move” for the U.S. to send military support to the Chinese without declaring war against Japan?