[prof.h.mandingo]

You may want to read post 28 and 30 for some information. Not only did we cut of their oil we cut scrap steel etc. As for your smartazz remark you are so correct no one was trying to invade Japan at that time. Also Hitler wanted to invade for many reason besides economic ones. Hitler was driven by ideology. In fact he did not want to fight Britain. Trying to equate the aims of Japan and Germany is a losing proposition.
FDR was advised AGAINST moving the fleet to Pearl by his military advisers. He overruled them to try to impress the Japs. Bad move on his part. Pearl was a trap and his military tried to tell him. You also totally misread Japanese psychology of the period.

[wideawake]

Not only did we cut of their oil we cut scrap steel etc.

So not selling things is grounds for war, then? If the bartender cuts you off, do you usually try to murder him?

s for your smartazz remark you are so correct no one was trying to invade Japan at that time.

So it was not an issue of sovereignty at all, then.

Trying to equate the aims of Japan and Germany is a losing proposition.

Both regimes believed as a matter of official ideology that it was their historical destiny to be imperial rulers of their continents.

Pearl was a trap and his military tried to tell him.

There is zero contemporary evidence of this.

You also totally misread Japanese psychology of the period.

The Japanese of the 1930s were human beings, not aliens from another planet. They had the same motives and desires as all peoples in history have ever had.