It’s the 80th anniversary here today. I feel like it deserves a reminder because it doesn’t get a lot of attention anymore. Tons of evidence to suggest we knew about it beforehand. Intercepted transmissions. A lot of our capital ships that were scheduled to have been docked there were out on patrol. The staff were pulled from the harbor. The radar signatures were dismissed. And all of the sudden we were at war despite popular objection to the idea a few weeks prior.
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Take it a step further. The Japanese planes didn't destroy the massive above ground fuel reserves at Pearl Harbor. The entire war was about oil. The Japanese went south to oil reserves in Indonesia, Germany went west, the hard way that would never work, to Arabia via Africa. And to Caucasus mountains via Russia, but Hitler stopped to take over the completely destroyed Stalingrad instead of pushing south to the oil fields.