Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

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.