Comment on YSK: Charles Lindbergh Pushed Anti-Semitic Conspiracies As Part of the America First Campaign
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 5 days agoAmerica emerged as a superpower along with the USSR after WW2. Japan dragged America into the war after Pearl Harbor.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Wrong, the Americans desperately wanted war with Japan.
The oil embargo was practically a declaration of war.
They deliberately moved their fleet to indefensible Pearl Harbor in the middle of nowhere as a juicy target.
America was already a superpower at that time. And it cost the Soviets the role as possible superpower since they almost singlehandedly beat the Germans at great cost. All in all a great tactical play by the US, if not cold and cynical.