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Date: 13 Nov 2024 23:53:50 GMT
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On 14 Nov 2024 08:02:19 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> The key motivation of the Japanese was to secure their oil supply after
> the USA imposed an embargo on oil exports to Japan (followed by Britain
> and the Dutch East Indies) in reaction to their brutality in China. The
> USA was trying to force them to pull out of China and break their
> allegiances to the axis powers. All quite interventionist.

Roosevelt had odd ideas about the meaning of neutrality. In addition to 
interning Italian seamen and World's Fair workers prior to entering the 
war, materiel was supplied to the Allied powers. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

Much like the case of Woodrow 'He Kept Us Out of War' Wilson during WWI, 
popular opinion was isolationist but our government was having no part of 
it. Then, as now, politicians do what they damn well please once elected.