Fine. Lets pretend they committed no crimes against humanity, they are still Clerical Fascists.
No… just with the invasion of Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam, Singapore and Indonesia.
Alright, we have established that they had a plan, why did they carry it out when America put a trade embargo on Japan?
No they didnt. Also the date was 1904. And about 20000 Japanese deaths were due to disease, so the Russians lost more troops due to combat related reasons. It was regardless a sweeping Japanese victory and, get this, is cited as one of the reasons the Czars government fell. So if a few enemy victories far from St Petersburg helped topple the Czar (and drop Russia out of world war 1) what might a series of enemy victories, the surrounding of St. Petersburg (or Leningrad) and an invasion in the East do?
Lets see now… the Nazis went as far as Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad… did the Soviet leadership surrender? No, because it couldn’t. Because surrendering meant extinction. By the time the Axis reached Stalingrad, morale was very high all over the USSR.
From the Panama Canal to Christmas Island to Tasmania to Australia. The very idea that the Japanese navy had submarines that far out even though they were preparing to help out the army in its conquest of the Philippines is ludicrous!
But you also say it would not have been better to wait .
So are you now saying that Roosevelt didnt make a mistake there?
Perhaps it was a better idea for Roosevelt not to sell oil to Japan in the first place. Then take it away thus radicalizing a desperate leadership. The Japanese war effort depended on American oil so why sell them oil in the first place? And what is so special about 1941? Why not in 1937 when Japan slaughtered the citizens of Nanking?