>>318032
The US wanted war so badly. The admiral at pearl harbor was like telling the higher ups that japan could attack, that they should put mines, defenses and all of that, and the higher ups basically avoided all sorts of defense, this added of what the anon above said about the embargo. For the japanese, the US started the war first. The relations between the US and Japan were so bad, the US was basically complaining all the time about japan, when they technically called themselves a "neutral nation". The neutral nation:
>President Roosevelt reacted to Japan's invasion of Indochina by taking three major steps. First, he took control of all Japanese money in the United States. Second, he brought the armed forces of the Philippines under American command. And, third, he closed the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping.
Also selling weapons and sending men to China, which is your enemy in active war. American neutrality as it's finest.