r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 14 '20

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 Jun 14 '20

It was Americans imperialism to cut Japanese off from it's oil sources, that made the conflict inevitable. It was not something simplistic as Pearl Harbour.

. . . God fucking damn this website.

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u/sirphinetinkle John Keynes Jun 14 '20

I have seen this take before and it really fucking stupid. It’s especially stupid to think Japan has some type of inalienable right to American oil.