FDR's whole "day of infamy" speech was hot air. The day before the attack on Pearl Harbpr, FDR read the decoded Japanese diplomatic telegrams telling the consulates to break up their code machines.

He told his alter ego Harry Hopkins: "This means war!"

FDR then cleverly sent the Pacific Fleet a Western Union telegram instead of making a phone call that would have given the fleet 24 hours warning.

Meanwhile, the Japanese diplomats, who knew they could not vaguely hope to win a war with the United States, tried to write a formal declaration after they sent their typists home. but got so drunk that they didn't have the declaration typed and delivered until the Pearl Harbor attack was already in progress. The Japanese blamed the attack on a century of Anglo-Saxon bullying — the British Opium Wars, U.S. massacres in the Philippines, TR's betrayal of Korea — they did a lot of the same stuff themselves, but generally cleared it with us first.
Judge Rabinaho Pal of India flatly declared that the United States had forced the war on them in his dissent from the Tokyo Trials.

An American diplomat with a German-Jewish refugee interpreter asked Hermann Goering after the war why Hitler had declared war on the United States.

"We felt we had to honor our treaty with Japan," Goering said.

"Why that treaty in particular?" the Jewish kid asked wryly. (That's a funny line…)

Goering then explained that Hitler felt that FDR's war in the Atlantic and aid to Britain constituted a virtual war in any case.

Ironically, after the bloody nose they got in Mongolia in 1939, the Japanese had no intention of fighting anybody who had good tanks and trucks. Matsuo Kinoaku bluntly said that no invasion of North America was possible. He also said that American soldiers were extremely brave, though somewhat inept in stealthy fighting. He though Japanhad a better navy.

Final irony — while the Japanese were desperately trying to get their oil and credit from the U.S. restored in the autumn of 1941 they offered to back out of the alliance with Hitler: the Japanese had
saved about 40,000 Jewish refugees whom they sheltered in Shanghai, and Hitler had been a key supplier to
Japan's short-time enemy, Chiang Kai-shek. Check out the photos of Chiang's soldiers with M-35 Nazi-issue steel helmets and Mauser rifles and pistols.

The Japanese (like all Asians) tend to like Germans in general (see the new South Korean war movie, "My Way" but they thought Hitler was a dangerous and vulgar buffoon. I quite agree.

John Koster
author of OPERATION SNOW: HOW A SOVIET MOLE IN FDR'S WHITE HIOUSE TRIGGERED PEARL HARBOR

By the beginning of the war, the General Staff had been largely emasculated, and could no longer obstruct or delay Hitler based upon considerations such as logistics, supply and manpower, which were known by many experts to be inadequate to carry out lengthy and extensive operations in the USSR. A "preliminary study" for Barbarossa in July 1940 nonetheless elicited a positive response from the remaining Army leadership in the context of a limited war for territorial gains.

I recognize that it is controversial to tackle the issue of dissent on the part of military leadership against political leadership; however, I can think of instances in recent US history where this has been both necessary and expedient.

Why??

Very Simple: to save face and cover up the retreat and defeat from Moscow; and he achived it to a certaint extent.

He did it again with Kursk; he called it off to "help" the italians against the sicily invasion. Actually Germany was defeated.

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