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so? the history of mankind is built on people picking other people thinking they will do X while they will use all their force to do Y.


Which is why the admirals of the Imperial Japanese Navy refused to attack Pearl Harbor when ordered to do so...right?

The ones who do Y instead of X are often pretty interesting. But that's partly because they're pretty rare.


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The oil embargo was in response to Japanese Imperialism in the Pacific, having already conquered a fair amount of territory. It wasn't just out of the blue with Japan sitting there behaving themselves.




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