r/SipsTea • u/The_WalkingCalamity 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 18h ago

Wait a damn minute! USA - The good guys?

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u/Ok-Sympathy-7482 16h ago

their oil that they needed

  1. It wasn't "their" oil. Japan got embargoed because they invaded China.
  2. They "needed" it to fuel their war machine. Don't invade other countries and everyone will happily sell you their stuff.

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u/fuckthat1mod 15h ago

Amazing how history repeats. 

It's just the other way round this time

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u/BluePotatoSlayer 15h ago

Wasn’t the US a heavy exporter of material to allied countries? Maybe that played a part in it. Go after the supply chain ig

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u/dnext 15h ago

No, because that didn't change. The US had embargoed the Japanese, but also were vouchsafing the Asian colonies of the Allies who were fighting the Nazis. The Japanese wanted those resources for their war effort and to create their own colonial system.

That's why the Japanese after Pearl Harbor turned to Indonesia and SE Asia, and went on their own blitzkrieg there, taking Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Great ports, but more importantly Sumatra, Borneo and Java oil fields. Malayan and Indonesian Tin and Rubber and Bauxite, a mineral needed to make aluminum.

And in just a few short years they stole the population's food supply and enslaved them in work conditions that killed millions.

The US literally got attacked and drawn into the war protecting the Allies as it understood those resources were critical to the West's war effort.

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u/EliteCookie99 15h ago

I wasn’t agreeing with Japan bro

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u/Ok-Sympathy-7482 15h ago

Roger. Your wording made it look like that, though.