I love how many Americans here are going "What? America start a war? Impossible!" if you people believe America is a "saint" and that your country has done no wrong you seriously need to read up on real history.

@jonjonvids

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah it wasn't Japanese imperialistic ideals that started the war. No it was America being its normal racist self.

@ItsJustMeAdam.

8 жыл бұрын

You must be racist... I mean of all the comments here,you are the ONLY ONE to throw the race word out there. Want to end racism? Shut the fuck up about racism and let it die... As for the other part of your comment,The U.S. created this conflict all over greed and total control.

@jonjonvids

8 жыл бұрын

ƨυɈiɿɘmɘ ɒqɒq​​​​​ you mean of the one comment here. do you understand sarcasm I mean I'm sure probably a lot of America was racist back then but so was everyone else who gives a shit I said that because everyone always gets so pissy over racism. also American didn't start a conflict with Japan. I'm no history expert but I'm pretty sure almost every source will tell you the same.

@jenniapplewhite2221

7 жыл бұрын

there is a reason why the us is the most hated nation in the world. This is a good example

@jonjonvids

7 жыл бұрын

Jenni Applewhite for what.

That Roosevelt and his chieftains did not ring the tocsin makes perfect sense: after all, the impending attack constituted precisely what they had been seeking for a long time. As Stimson confided to his diary after a meeting of the War Cabinet on November 25, "The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves." After the attack, Stimson confessed that "my first feeling was of relief . . . that a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people."

@stt.9433

5 жыл бұрын

directly pulled form the article. I used this in a school exam, I think I got some points pulled because of it. I still got a good grade but not the grade I should have gotten because I came off as conspiracy theorist. I'm not going to lie the way it's put makes it seem they knew of an imminent attack but truth be told they knew of it's possibility (officially) but were still surprised and ill prepared for it. The part that confuses me is the cryptography mention, it made me think that the japanese embassy was warned through encrypted messages about the plan but that the President withheld information to allow for the event to follow. I'm guessing it's more likely Pearl Harbor was mentioned as an option but not the option. It's not however at all unreasonable to say that the Americans which for visible crisis to involve the public in the war interest that the government held. Once done, the americans had the excuse and the domestic support for full on war. I'm not criticizing the government for doing what they did, I think that was the most sound course of action that led to the rise of the US post-war, and helped establish the country as a superpower. If not for America's involvement, Europe would have been (re)taken by Soviet Russia and slowly turned into puppet states such as in Eastern Europe which was one of their big objectives (Hitler mentions this in a recorded conversation).

A criminally under-watched lecture.

seeing lectures like this make me happy to learn, but sad since they show me how much i was lied to in school haha

@heavierthanheaven88

2 жыл бұрын

hope you are still on the path of truth regarding ww2.

@user-pe5xd3qh7m

2 жыл бұрын

Really? I was taught all this in school you didn't go to public school?

@readhistory2023

2 жыл бұрын

Japan was planning to attack the US long before the US started their embargos. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States. We have the documentation from the Japanese.

@readhistory2023

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-pe5xd3qh7m Your teachers lied to you. Japan was planning to attack the US long before the US started their embargos. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States. We have the documentation from the Japanese. You're also forgetting the reason why the US did the embargo. The Rape of Nanking ring any bells? How about the Japanese bayonetting babies? Put down the commie koolaid. The Japanese deserved the embargo and got off light only having two nukes dropped on them.

@No_Anime_No_Life.

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-pe5xd3qh7m maybe your school have good and honest teacher meanwhile Maarkun school doesn't have good teacher same here in Indonesia, many of my history teacher in my schools never show me about Indonesia invade East Tiimor even education book also rare to telling about this i think this is common for human error in education system afterall

1) The US started first such war conducts as volunteer soldier dispatch and embargo which are regarded as war. 2) There was 3 way battle in China, Manchurian whom Japan was supporting, ROC and Communist whom the US was supporting. The wife of the Pres of ROC was born in NY and her lobby was successful. 3) Roman Pope said, "Japan was fighting against communism and so the US should leave them." 4) American strategy, 'The enemy of our enemy is our friend', always bears monster such as USSR against Germany, China against Japan, Hussein against Iran and Bin-Ladin against USSR. 5) The Chinese began telling, "Nanking massacre was done by ROC soldiers." Justification of A-bomb would disappear near future.

@flashers.5212

4 жыл бұрын

You might be making points I would find interesting, it looks like it, but I can’t follow your diction dear & no, I’m not trying to be rude.

@KittieGeorge

4 жыл бұрын

@@flashers.5212 Victor's facts were decided in Tokyo trial. Let's rely finding truth on historians.

@uranus4511

2 жыл бұрын

Venona document

@Clash_CT_Rocker69

2 жыл бұрын

@@uranus4511 Which gave us a proof that dictator and massive murderer Stalin had 392 spy in whole Roosevelt administration. Roosevelt was informed about those spy ring couple times, but he done nothing to prevent this torrent on A-bomb towards Stalin and SSSR. His Vice President Harry Truman did not know nothing about "Project Manhattan", but Stalin knew. Also, Roosevelt as a high ranking member of world Freemasonry which "invented" Communism, always was on Stalin's side. He refused to believe the real truth in a crime in the Katyn Forest, in eastern Poland, where the German Wehrmacht discovered a mass grave with the bodies of more than 9,000 Polish officers. He did not allow the news to be published in the USA, and several US-Polish short-range radio stations were threatened with revocation of their licenses by FBI agents if they once again published the truth about Stalin's order to kill 9,000 Poles in Katyn Forest.

@uranus4511

2 жыл бұрын

@@Clash_CT_Rocker69 There were also many cominters in Japan's Konoe administration and the top of the Navy. They were also in GHQ, which ruled Japan after the war. They cooperated with Russia to force Japan to beat the United States and lead Japan to defeat. The Japan Socialist Party opposed Japan's independence under the San Francisco Treaty. What we should eliminate is the Marxist and communist ideological activists of the world. They use the world's educational venues, the media and human rights activists to divide countries and destroy culture. Merry Christmas has lost in America.

The history should be honest then. Right now popular history is basically a fairy tale.

It is not well known that the Soviets led both countries to war. Since the birth of the Soviet Union, many members of the League of Nations have been stationed in northern China since around 1910 to guard and watching them. They gradually returned to them countries, but Japan fearing repeated Soviet invasions south, continued to be stationed to defend itself. And it was only a obstacle of them invasions to south. by that reason,The Soviets were sending spies to Japan and the United States. In Japan, that spies used newspaper reporters to incite masses to invade Southeast Asia, a colony of European countries. This spy was executed by Japan, but he has become the hero of the country as a Soviet hero. Also in the United States those spies operate in the White House, making strict requirements that Japan rejects. The United States has imposed sanctions on Japan on the issue that Japan will not withdraw from northern China, however that reason It was a not well known that the demands of USA on Japan, and was to return to Japan after abandoning those tanks & other military weapons. The request was something Japan definitely refuse. And that was made by Soviet spies operating in the White House, were send to Japan without US Congress approval. The result was a Pearl Harbor attack. which allowed the Soviets to focus on the German war by that. They were revealed in a postwar US national Soviets spies research project.

@uranus4511

2 жыл бұрын

Venona document

@SUMIRE555

2 жыл бұрын

That's right. It is an astute analysis.

@danpeitange2471

Жыл бұрын

It was the Hull Note that triggered Japan's decision to go to a war.

@Tboy439

8 ай бұрын

You have no idea what you are talking about!!!

“Economic warfare” was like a jail without foods for Japanese people living in isolated islands on pacific. First of all, before talking over Pearl Harbor, we have to realize the reason why Flying Tigers cooperated with Chiang Kai Shek's airforce, who wasn't liberator for Chinese but just a rival against Mao. It was no doubt about that the United States didn't fight for the liberation of China.

@FrankPierece

2 жыл бұрын

Mao and chiang were fighting together when the flying tigers were sent...

@readhistory2023

2 жыл бұрын

The US didn't get involved in the Japanese invasion just because. You just skipped over tens years of Japanese crimes against humanity. The Japanese bayonetting Chinese babies wasn't propaganda and the US didn't get involved in the Japanese invasion of China just because. The Japanese were so proud of what they were doing to the Chinese they filmed it posterity. Serious look up Unit 731 and Japanese war crimes. P.S. Put down the commie koolaid.

@martthesling

Жыл бұрын

Poor Japan. It was just murdering tens of millions of people in Asian countries. Japan was just raping hundreds of thousands of women and girls in China. Japan needed that oil to invade other countries to increase its Imperial ambitions. Big, mean America stopped giving them oil to feed Janpan's war industry. America provoked Japan. America should have given Japan the oil it needed to murder more millions more in Asia.

how many wars did the germans and japanese start after ww2, ok 0, and how many did the usa start? haha, good luck counting bro

@onyxdragon1179

3 жыл бұрын

how many did they start???

@MGsven

3 жыл бұрын

@@onyxdragon1179 germany 0, japan 0, usa 38 military conflicts

@MGrey-qb5xz

3 жыл бұрын

@Damarion Pompey true and i love how brainwashed westerns think that Japan and Germany had any chance against the super powers like Russia and Europe and literally every single one of their allies not counting USA.

I am almost speechless. James Madison was right about the lost of liberties due to war.

@uranus4511

2 жыл бұрын

appreciate. Japan has no intention of blaming the United States. The ability to make such trajectory corrections proves that the United States is also a gentleman's country. However, Japan has been beaten by China and South Korea due to wrong historical facts, and has lost its national interest even with false stories. Japan is full of people who are dyed with a self-deprecating historical view that blames the Japanese. Please let us regain our pride in our country. I hope that as many Americans as possible will know this fact. Cominter was also lurking in Japan's Konoe administration, and directed Japan to attack the United States. Sorge incident. Our common enemy has always been communists.

Or all the innocent people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

At 1945 Yalta Conference, US and UK agreed that Stalin’s Soviet Union shall have the exclusive controlling right over Manchuria, encouraged its invasion into Manchukuo in total violation of Nine-Power Treaty of 1922. Nine-Power Treaty of 1922 was the basis of US accusation of Japan such as Henry Stimson’s non-recognition policy toward Manchukuo and FDR’s Quarantine Speech of 1937. It is a dastardly double-standard on the part of US and UK that they did not allow for Japan what is allowable for Soviet Union.

@johnjones3332

Жыл бұрын

they saw the soviets as white europeans.

At the Yalta Conference, US/UK encouraged Soviet Union to invade and occupy Manchuria. Why did US/UK allow Soviet Union to do what is intolerable for Japan?

Robert Higgs said "Northern China"? That is wrong. At that time Manchuria was a separate country which was north of the Great Wall of China, just like Mongolia was. Chinese (Han) were not allowed to go to Manchuria, although Manchurians were allowed to come to Beijing. Manchurians invaded and conquered the mainland China and established Chin Dynasty in 1600. The same way British could come to the US, but the Americans could not go to Great Britain.

How greed will destroy us.

WW2 was about prohibiting rising powers from gaining resources outside their borders in the same methods that the allied nations except for the USSR had undertaken in the previous 100 years while also preparing borders for the upcoming conflict against communism.

Why did you think the US had to react to Stalin to establish the 38 parallel when the soviets invaded the Japanese army on August 9 after the Nagasaki atomic bomb? Why was Korea important? Because it provided the great opportunities to wars and lots of business profits. The same with NATO forces in Europe. Then the Middle East and finally Vietnam. Then Middle East again. 70 years of war, 70 years of profits.

This is an excellent lecture. I read it online while watching the 1970 version of “Tora! Tora! Tora!”. There are some details I’d like to add; should anyone desire to question/comment on any of these they are certainly free to respond to my post. Everything about our battles against Hitler in WWII boils down to 2 things: banking and oil. Our Anglo-aristocratic leaders wanted to reinstall the BIS bankers in Germany so they could go back to bilking Germany of WWI reparations (if not also puppetting a major developed country); meanwhile, Hitler wanted to establish German control over the oil fields of the Ural-Volga and the Mideast. The BIS bankers had no interest in Japan at the time-which had only recently pulled itself out of an agrarian lifestyle-however, every big businessman in the west was eyeballing China, as that nation had yet to turn communist, and still had considerable potential for western investment. Therefore, we were going to use Japan-which was China’s historic enemy-as a springboard for warring against Germany. The reason it was likely to work (and did) is also twofold. First, in 1939, imperialistic Japan (“Empire of Japan”) had taken it upon itself to push into Siberia through Manchuria, incurring the wrath of Stalin (who was barely able to repel their advance). Secondly, in the summer of 1941, Hitler broke his own treaty with the brutish Stalin and invaded the USSR. Had Hitler done this a little more tactfully he could have immediately won the support of the western Russians to his side-ethnic Slavs who had already grown sick of Stalin’s political purges. Hitler could have then recruited the Slavs in his war against Britain, putting that nation entirely under his control. Instead, Hitler and his fellow Nazis stuck to their racial supremacy, mistreating and murdering the ethnic Slavs on their way to Moscow. In Russia, he turned his would-be Slavic recruits into his newfound enemies; however, because he diverted the Soviet army away from the Japanese front, the Japanese now considered Hitler their ally. Such is how our American leadership could now argue, “Imperialistic Japan, an ally of Hitler, attacked one of our Pacific outposts-therefore, we are going to war against Germany”. All that remained to be done was to goad Japan into attacking one of our outposts-the method of which Robert Higgs effectively answers in this 2012 lecture. To me, the whole thing is sickening. It’s sickening the way the politicians, international bankers, aristocrats and big businessmen concertedly pushed this population-destroying conflict into existence, and just as sickening to consider the unthinking masses in each respective nation who themselves were fevered with hatred and loveless materialism. Once you start to look at it that way, “The Good War” seems like a very ugly canker on human history (one that ended with a nuclear attack, no less). Incidentally, the term “The Good War” comes from an eponymous book by longtime American historian Studs Terkel. In spite of naming it such, Terkel (who died in 2008) was not a promoter of wars; the title “The Good War” appears in quotations on the book’s cover. Following 9/11 Terkel likened the war on terror to the Salem, Massachusetts “war on witchcraft”, then declared America to be suffering from a national Alzheimer’s disease in which its citizens forget everything. Nonetheless, our corporate media-which does everything possible to support the war on terror-frequently coins the the phrase “The Good War”, omitting the fact WWII has never been promoted as “good” by Terkel or any of his contemporaries. And let me also say this. In spite of WWII basically being a war over “money creation” and “energy creation”, should you ask Americans today what they know of either money creation or energy creation, they are likely to say, “We know only what our leaders tell us.” And should you then ask if any of these leaders-Democrats or Republicans-have proposed any alternatives to our current money creation system (the US Federal Reserve), or to our primary means of mechanical energy (oil), they will probably say “no”. Again, yet another generation of Americans find themselves strangely synonymous with the Tennyson poem, “Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.”

@kyle18934

6 жыл бұрын

I would like to add that I like orange juice and pickles

@JV-ms1wi

6 жыл бұрын

kyle oien what about toast and broccoli?

@Longtack55

5 жыл бұрын

Good ideas - thanks.

@toshitanaka1550

Жыл бұрын

Lets also not forget a book about an American journalist named Fredrick Vincent Williams. He has lived in Manchuria under the Kuomintang and the Kwangtang which are Manchus working for the Imperial Japanese. Roosevelt believed in those lies is because he was working with the Chinese nationalists. It doesn’t surprise me for a guy like him to support his business in China and deny the genocides that Chiang Kai Shek deliberately lied and blamed it all on Japan. Funny how the KMT lost the civil war in China in 1949 and he fled to Taiwan lying to the local Taiwanese again and started to brutally murder, rape, and pillage Taiwan with 2,000,000 KMT soldiers that escaped from mainland China. Protests still go on in defacing Chiang Kai Shek’s legitimacy as a president and also a war hero. The modern KMT is also siding with the CCP. If we followed the standard historical views we are leaving out many key components coming from not just critical thinking , but also the realities of disease and the spread of it or even bringing back the dead and killing them again.

@Tboy439

8 ай бұрын

That was pretty long winded for someone who doesn't have a clue what you are talking about!!!

Before the Japanese-Chinese War, China had a “Shanghai International Settlement”. It was an area where Westerners and Japanese lived, protecting the Jews who escaped the persecution of Nazi Germany. The Japanese army was mainly defending the land, Westerners benefited from it, and Chinese targeted the Japanese as a grudge. The Japanese-Chinese War was started because of repeated Chinese terrorism against this land. What the United States and Britain did at this time was to help China, not Japan. They wanted more profits than repayments.The United States attempted not only financial support but also direct military support. If you want to know more about "Flying Tigers", check this out. Finally, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

@No_Anime_No_Life.

2 жыл бұрын

and after Cold War, all companies again help China for more profits than repayments, as result CCP army the PLA become to strong and CCP become more greedy and hypocritical then before, we never learn afterall

Generals gathered in their masses ...

Watching in 2018. Anyone else worried about idk... Russia/China/Iran?

@markharrison2544

5 жыл бұрын

The US needs to stop illegally bombing Syria.

@mr.goldfish1530

5 жыл бұрын

The US needs to stop toppling democratically elected governments in favour of dictators and shills.

@6pingpongpang9

2 ай бұрын

Hey you got Russia and Iran right!

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference after WW1, Japan submitted a bill to eliminate racism, but that was crushed by Chairman US President Woodrow Wilson. For Japan, WW2 was aimed at “releasing the colony of the white nation”, but that is not the history that the victorious nation recognizes. If you are interested in different aspects of WW2, please add this book to your reading list. [Race War !: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire 2006/3/1 Gerald Horne]

@AwesomeAlexAdam

4 жыл бұрын

じゃっくだにえら America is a Racist country. Always has been.

@noticemesenpai69

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been on a Japan WW2 binge the past month or so

@mrmackey8776

2 жыл бұрын

@@AwesomeAlexAdam good

@Clash_CT_Rocker69

2 жыл бұрын

Japan wanted to drive off "white colonisator" from Asia so it could Japan take place as a new and more cruel colonisator.

@user-gt4em6nv6h

Жыл бұрын

I think that war was yellow lives matter 日本の大東亜戦争-Japan's world war Ⅱ kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z2F51piefazIZtY.html　(日本語版) kzread.info/dash/bejne/YqGltqWdgJmtoaw.html (English)

I'm speechless need a minute to digest this

Outstanding!

Playing the unwashed masses like a fiddle. Amazing how easy it is.

@alwagner9722

Жыл бұрын

They're plan of "dumbing down" the US population is working quite well.

I hope that Japanese government at that day had communicated not only with aggressive Democrats but also with Republican. Republicans, such as President Hoover and Hamilton Fish were constantly opposing war and seeking way to avoid joining the WW2. They would defeat cunning desire of Roosevelt.

That explains why the Carriers weren't at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack. US knew of the attack so they used the old and out dated battle ships as bait coz they know that the Carriers are the new Naval powers thats why they saved it. I know coz I saw it in the movie MIDWAY.

@ualuuanie

4 жыл бұрын

OMG! Do you mean they sacrifice all those men and civilians just to go to war? That is disgusting. Wonder why the people did not stand up and kick them out.

@noticemesenpai69

3 жыл бұрын

Tom-A062 convenient for them to be out on exercise the same time as the attack, especially when you can listen in on their communications

@Rambo-kv7dm

2 жыл бұрын

Hollywood is not the best reference. It belongs to the MIC propagandist wing, like big tech today!

@uranus4511

2 жыл бұрын

Venona document

@breadsticat6264

Жыл бұрын

All of this is false. The carriers being out of port at Pearl Harbor was pure coincidence and in fact, one of the carriers was slated to have arrived back at port on the 6th, but could not make it due to poor weather. US Navy doctrine at the time did not use carriers as flagships at all; battleships were still the main fighting force in naval battles, with aircraft carriers being used for support. They were not valued as flagships at all. Roosevelt expected an altercation with the Japanese, but almost definitely did not expect to be hit as hard as they were at Pearl Harbor. The carriers became so important BECAUSE of the lack of useable battleships after pearl harbor.

can't we all just get along?

@toshitanaka1550

Жыл бұрын

Tell that to China, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, and other countries following Communist dictators.

To be, or not to be? That is the question- Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? - Empire of Japan 1941

how will you have buyers of weapons if there is no war?

@KokenyRichard

3 жыл бұрын

Omg how can you be this stupid?🌞

Most empires seem to find a war or figure out how to make one.

At 9:54 FDR's ancestor Mr. Higgs is talking about was: ''Warren Delano made a large fortune trading opium in Canton (now Guangdong), China.'' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_family#Warren_Delano's_career_smuggling_opium_into_China

It pretty much is. The video is too short, a more detailed analysis reveals many "coinsidences" in these 2 cases.

I strongly believe that concentration oft the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was the bait for Japan to attack them first and foremost at the outbreak of the war. Surprisingly, the cornered mouse (Japan) attacked the cat (US).

@toshitanaka1550

Жыл бұрын

It also doesn’t help that Roosevelt had a plan called JB355 signed by him to initiate an attack on Tokyo, Osaka, and Hiroshima. That plan was foiled because of the invasion of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 where the B-17 bombers were stationed.

I want to see the full lecture this is edited you can see whee the cuts was made

France fell in the spring/ early summer of 1940, not 1941. The attack on Russia, operation Barbarossa was launched on the first day of the summer of 1941.

Japan left the league and invaded china to protect its assets that where vital to keeping Japans economy afloat such as the......... ((The South Manchuria Railway Company (南満洲鉄道株式会社 Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha)), or Mantetsu (満鉄, literally "Manchurian Railway") for short, was a company founded by the Japanese in 1906 and operated within the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The Japanese-controlled railway ran from Lüshun Port at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Changchun, where it connected to the Russian-controlled portion of the southern Chinese Eastern Railway. The company was often referred to as "Japan's East India Company in China". Japan was in Manchuria legally.....under a treaty negotiated by President Roosevelt From 1916, Mantestu began to spin off a number of subsidiary companies, including Showa Steel Works, Dalian Ceramics, Dalian Oil & Fat, South Manchurian Glass, as well as flour mills, sugar mills, electrical power plants, shale oil plants and chemical plants. And there are multiplu fake photos that where made during the war and after as anti Japanese propaganda and are easly visible when one knows the dress code and ranks and issued equipment given to ranks in the Japanese Imperial Army. Until 1925, the company also operated the Korean railway system. Company assets rose from 163 million yen in 1908 to over a billion yen in 1930. Mantetsu was by far the largest corporation in Japan, and also its most profitable, averaging rates of return from 25-45 percent per year. During the 1920s, Mantetsu provided for over a quarter of the Japanese government's tax revenues. Over 75% of Mantetsu's income was generated by its freight business, with the key to profitability coming from soybean exports, both to Japan proper and to Europe. Soybean production increased exponentially with increasing demand for soy oil, and for soy meal for use in fertilizer and animal feed. By 1927, half of the world's supply of soybean was from Manchuria and the efforts by Mantetsu to expand production and to ship to export ports was a classic example of an extractive colonial economy dependent on a single product. Mantetsu was also charged with a government-like role in managing the rail transportation system after the formation of Manchukuo in 1932. By 1938, Mantetsu had 72 subsidiary companies, development projects in 25 urban areas and carried 17,515,000 passengers per year. Between 1930-1940, the Japanese population of Manchukuo rose by 800,000 making ethnic Japanese the majority in many of the towns and cities served by Mantetsu. Mantetsu prided itself on state-of-the-art urban planning, with modern sewer systems, public parks, and creative modern architecture far in advance of what could be found in Japan itself. Yet this was not enough for Japans over whelming and growing economy that needed more. DR had, as early as October 1940, decided that the U.S. would be involved in a war with Japan.....On October 8, 1940, Admiral James O. Richardson, ( the foremost U.S. expert on war with Japan)Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, provoked a confrontation with Roosevelt by repeating his earlier arguments to Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox that Pearl Harbor was the wrong place for his ships. Roosevelt believed relocating the fleet to Hawaii would exert a "restraining influence" on Japan. Richardson asked the President if the United States was going to war. Roosevelt's view was: At least as early as October 8, 1940, ...affairs had reached such a state that the United States would become involved in a war with Japan. In their final proposal on November 20, 1941, Japan offered to withdraw its forces from southern Indochina and not to launch any attacks in southeast Asia provided that the U.S., Britain, and the ceased aiding China and lifted their sanctions against Japan. The American counterproposal of November 26 (the Hull note) required Japan to evacuate all of China, without conditions, and to conclude non-aggression pacts with Pacific powers.

@timothyokeefe6626

Жыл бұрын

@PhilOsSlash All this is garbage & twisted thinking. In the World War 2 era Germany and Japan were treacherous and evil. They invaded other nations & murdered millions.

Two wrongs don't make a right. The point is that peace and liberty come through trade and diplomacy not via the end of a gun. The argument that America needs to act as the saviour and liberator of the world is hilarious at best and downright fallacious by most metrics. The tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of civilians vaporized by the two American atomic bombs is the perfect illustration.

@toshitanaka1550

Жыл бұрын

Its laughable not preventing the people of Pearl Harbor on board the battleships from being blown to pieces with many Naval sailors and Coast Guards. Many Admirals had received reports of a possible invasion two weeks before and Roosevelt belayed the order so he can make it look like the U.S. was invaded surprisingly. Roosevelt was a manipulator and a dictator since he was great friends with Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek. A liar to the American people and a racist to many. This man should’ve been put on trials for killing many Japanese civilians. He kept poking sticks at Germany and Japan just so he can go to war and raise money and votes for the Democratic Party. Disgusting man he is and Truman.

I read Toland's book on Pearl Harbor years ago, and much suggestive information seems to support this thesis; however, I wonder if it is possible to definitively impute full knowledge to Roosevelt's staff. As others have said, much of the conspiracy was probably in covering up the appearance of foreknowledge that would dilute the war effort's legitimacy. Any skeptical takes on this beyond the "only low level functionaries had foreknowledge of the attack and the upper level was ignorant" tack?

1 in 10,000 Americans might know this? How about 1 in 20,000,000? This lot learn history from the movies...

15:55~ American cryptographers had also broken the Japanese naval code, the leaders in Washington also knew Japan's measures would include an attack on Pearl Harbor. I am not sure if this is accurate. I am not sure if Washington had deciphered the Japanese naval code by the PH attack. Washington knew that Japan would attack the US bases in the Pacific anytime on or after December 7th, but Washington didn't know Japan would specifically attack PH.

Sounds familiar...

Japan knew about the McCollum memo.

Excellent condensed historical account; contrast with emotive hollywood trash.

why is WW1 (World War 1) called WW1? Why is it numbered and not just "world war". The number would suggest there will be a 2 and 3, ...?

Japanese fought with America operated by soviet From Japanese high school students

@MGrey-qb5xz

3 жыл бұрын

meaning?

"Establishing a record in which the enemy fired the first shot was a theme that ran through FDR's tactics. He believed that Japan would be easier to provoke into an attack on the US than Germany would be. The claim that Japan attacked without provocations worked because the public did not know that FDR's administration had EXPECTED the Japanese to respond with war its provocations." Japan's inability to defend itself against FDR's war of aggression is one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.

@Longtack55

5 жыл бұрын

I really disregard that Japan was provoked by the USA. They did have other choices and these have been well-canvassed.

@6pingpongpang9

2 ай бұрын

@@Longtack55It’s been 5 years, Seeing the state of Ukraine and Gaza, do you believe what you said was true?

I never said anyone was.

this was no secret, it was openly spoken about..

@SovereignStatesman

8 жыл бұрын

+EDWARD GUERRERO When? Not in the media before the fact.

@VooDooMaGicMan81

5 жыл бұрын

Not to the average Joe. I don't know a single person in my social circle who would have this information.

@burritos1000

4 жыл бұрын

This was not spoken about. This was available to the public, but the public has to seek the information. And, so now, the new generations of Americans know the history as told in the movies and they stand by it, defiantly.

Mom! Suzy hit me! When will we be teenagers? Thanks for this mises.

Knew it.

I knew it I heard it on another channel

Ww1 same. We(americans) were told not to be on british ships. The Germans even ran ad in paper and maybe radio. Well some american were on a british luxury ship got sunk because they were smuggling munition. There for nolonger being a civilian ship.

Ironically enough the japanese where sitting on massive oil fields in Manchuria - The Liaohe Oil Field was located in the northeast of the Bohai Bay Basin, with its northern, eastern and western parts surrounded by mountains, while the southern part extends into the waters of the Liaodong bay, the total proven reserves of the Liaohe oil field are around 6.87 billion barrels, this oil field was only discovered in 1958, despite beeing pretty shallow and soft.

@toshitanaka1550

Жыл бұрын

Your also forgetting later in the 1990s that Sakhalin had that. Japan occupied the southern part of Sakhalin with the Soviets yet they didn’t know about it until later.

@TheUstasha101

Жыл бұрын

@@toshitanaka1550 wow did not know that, but those oil fields i think might be to deep and require more modern tech to exploit, the reason i wrote Liaohe oilfield is because its super shallow with soft soil, thus easy to exploit with ww2 era oil technology.

@toshitanaka1550

Жыл бұрын

@@TheUstasha101 at the time many people didn’t know about it. That also goes for Senkaku and Takeshima. Sakhalin was taken over by the Russians and the reason they don’t want to give it back is resources even though Russia has a lot of oil, but its to deter not only Japan, but the U.S. Takeshima and Senkaku is another story for another day.

Very interesting comments here. History and the course of human Events is always fascinating to study in order to reveal the deeper workings of human nature. Time after time we come to the same conclusions but we seem to be unable to learn from them: -"You can not apply human morality principles in international affairs" (or something similar by Henry Kissinger): This is how the policy makers operate. All peoples/nations must be very suspicious when their leaders quote Moral principles to justify their policies. -" History is written by the victors": Invariably official histories will glorify the victorious side and downplay all wrongdoings by them. Always be very suspicious of the "official history". -"The End always justifies the means": Does it? Burning thousands of babies alive can bring a Swift end to a war, is it justified though? -"Human nature is quite often defined by our lower instincts": Peoples/nations will more readily respect the freedom of others and opt for peace if they think it is in their best interest. Globalisation led to a world economy with Integration of more and more states. During most of european history Germany, France and England fought against each other, now all conflicts between them are carried out by technocrats debating matters of european bureaucracy. When a US spyplane came down on a chinese Island, the Chinese sent it back with their compliments. Why? Because China and the US are each other's best trade Partner. Putin is now backing down as the sanctions started to bite. China and Japan are trying to Show that they throw Jabs against each other over maritime territory Claims appealing to some internal Retro leftover nationalism but it is all just for Show: Why? Any conflict would be bad for Business.

The state is the health of war.

Well ,they certainly went against that principle later...just like everything else! :-o

And still to this day USA use this method to go to war. However, the Twin towers and WTC7 demolition was an opportunity gone too far. Israel knew USA tactics when it attacked USS Liberty. It tried to blame Egypt and yet USA eventually knew who had attacked the ship but did nothing to defend it. The question is, why? Vietnam was another opportunity to use this tactic.

It's one thing with a conspiracy, from him being funded by them, to making a deal with them, now you say he was one of them? Where did you get that from?

The question is, will Japanese history be repeated with Russia?

@toshitanaka1550

Жыл бұрын

If your meaning the Bolshevik revolution Japan already had that power struggle during the Taisho era which was roughly in the early 1920s. Thats where the Japanese Communists were deliberately trying to destroy the Japanese culture. They failed to do so and were imprisoned for treason. Fast forward to WWII Japan went to war against public opinion in the Japanese military ranks and that has to do with Communist spies wanting Japan taking the brunt of the Pacific since you know Japan occupies Sakhalin, the Kuril islands, and the Korean Peninsula. The Soviets wanted to spread Communism and the evidence has shown in China. It can also be traced back to the end of WWI where Lenin joined the League of Nations from Woodrow Wilson and corrupted it.

Isn't it nice to put all that we learnt into the "waste" and start all over? It is always the same - we are the sheeple and it is astonishing that even those who know find areas where they are just...sheeple.

Well its still going on and this time its Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Turkey( to a lesser extent ), North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba did I miss any?

Let's not get lost among the trees in the forest of details. Since the dawn of the 20th century, both Japan and USA increasingly saw each other's growing naval buildup and dominance as a threat to each other's hemispheric ambitions. That the growing tension and conflict of interests between USA and Japan should come to a dramatic head at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, was a matter of time. If FDR and his successors had allowed Imperial Japan time and space to even up or overtake the USA in terms of power asymmetry, the world would be a very different place today.

@115islandscompass6

7 ай бұрын

It seems to me that you are trapped in the labyrinth of history fabricated by the Allies and are unable to see the historical facts. Certainly, from the perspective of white supremacist and colonialist Western countries, the rise of Japan, which called for racial equality and the abolition of slavery, would have been troublesome. However, as MacArthur once said in a speech in the Senate, most of Japan's wars were for security reasons. In other words, propaganda such as "Japan's invasion and expansion ambitions" is a fabrication/distortion used by the Allies to justify/conceal their wrongdoings.

Of course the whole affair was more complicated than poor innocent US minding its own business. But mises' determination to make all wars since revolution primarily the fault of US govt fails here. Hitler took completely neutral countries such as Belgium, holland and others and Japan took Manchuria etc. war was inevitable for once. Korea Vietnam gulf war 1&2 ok but not WWII

what we are noticing here is provocation by the west of the US and NATO along the russian border, as well as diplomatic threats and we see any defensive action they take labelled as "russian aggression". I wonder if this was true for Germany and Japan.

@Joshua_N-A

Жыл бұрын

Now Russia is in Ukraine

nope, what is it?

Comintern

There are two kinds of wars, defensive and offensive, there´s not always a clear divde between this two, but you can make the distinction. There is always going to be Hitlers and Maos in the world, and there is always going to be Chinas an Russias trying to "conquerthe world" from ones perspective, that still doesnt justify the entrance of American troops to the fringes of the world the defend a country that is not there own and to go and fight an enemy that hasnt hurt them.

Epperson-The-Unseen-Hand-An-Introduction-to-the-Conspiratorial-View-of-History-1994, pg. 266

They took it too far with the nukes, it wasn't necessary to defeat Japan that way.

@martthesling

9 жыл бұрын

Using Nuclear weapons saved hundreds of thousands of American soldiers lives and millions of Japanese lives.

@briancollins1579

9 жыл бұрын

D&D D&D Japan could have ended the war earlier if it wished to...

@dddd489

9 жыл бұрын

Nah.. the embargoes were just a bad idea, the provocation of America caused the war.

@martthesling

9 жыл бұрын

D&D D&D Yes, Japan attacking Pearl Harbor was provocation by America.

@dddd489

9 жыл бұрын

The embargoes was the trigger, or at the least for the most part a big misunderstanding of what the world powers should have done to have prevented the Japan conquest, Unfortunately America did not help much with a lot of it's decisions, handling the axis in the east could of been handled better in my opinion.

How is that anything other than treason?

@Nestalgba92023

Жыл бұрын

Treason(s) by FDR, right?

Just like with Russia.

I haven't read your comment, but the first sentence alone is nonsense.

I would encourage you to improve your listening comprehension skills.

appreciate. Japan has no intention of blaming the United States. The ability to make such trajectory corrections proves that the United States is also a gentleman's country. However, Japan has been beaten by China and South Korea due to wrong historical facts, and has lost its national interest even with false stories. Japan is full of people who are dyed with a self-deprecating historical view that blames the Japanese. Please let us regain our pride in our country. I hope that as many Americans as possible will know this fact. Japan's only ally is the United States.

Gotdayum man....do you have to read "verbatim" a doctrine that completely monetizes a fascinating subject---WTF----???

Japan 1938, Russian 2017.

@moymoy123ish

7 жыл бұрын

what?

I'm glad that my country, The Netherlands, got freed by the allied forces. But we're heading towards a new large scale world war (now that Brittish forces might get involved in Syria) and I don't understand why people let the "leaders" of our "democratic" countries do this. Say no to war, always.

@JUANO510

Жыл бұрын

The allied forces didn't free any one stop it

@dennislans9084

Жыл бұрын

@@JUANO510 That is an absurd statement. We, The Netherlands and many other countries, were occupied by the Germans. People were suffering under the occupation, especially during the harsh winter of 1944. We most definitely got freed by allied forces. Additionally, looking back, I am glad it was western forces that freed us. Seeing current events I am so happy we did not end up under Russian control lol.

@JUANO510

Жыл бұрын

@@dennislans9084 you were occupied by the Germans because America told Germany to do that. I don't believe in the same history you do. Remember the victor writes history. I feel Hitler was teamed up with America to do those things

@JUANO510

Жыл бұрын

@@dennislans9084 also u act like america is better than Russia lol it's not

@dennislans9084

Жыл бұрын

@@JUANO510 I disagree with you. I suppose it mainly depends on how you look at America and why it may be better than Russia. Yes the US has invaded others like Iraq and Afghanistan to name but two, and you can rightfully judge them for that. However I consider it to be better than Russia in many ways: (1) standard of living is way higher, (2) you don't get thrown in jail on BS charges (although US does have some issues in that area), (3) been a friend to many western countries like The Netherlands, as opposed to Russia who abused its gas control. I could go on but honestly cannot be bothered to make the reply too big, because I have a feeling you'll disagree with me regardless. But that is fine :)

Rooseveldt knew about the impending attack but used it as a reason for his attack

@Will-bl6ko

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the cunning strategy of "let's lose virtually everything west of Hawaii, all those garrisons, all our primary surface ships (carriers being considered a secondary weapon prior to the war), and have to fight the Japanese as well as the Germans, huzzah! And this will be easy because we have detailed knowledge of Japanese military strength and doctrine! Plus, starting with a handful of ships while their fleet is intact will make it jolly sporting!"

@Longtack55

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, and??? What attack did the USA initiate or don't you know what "defence" is?

Lives are negatively impacted when you use economic warfare, so it is certainly evil. Nothing good can come from war, even when we helped rebuild Germany and Japan they became our puppets directed by the strings of our foreign policy. A family starving because economic warfare caused the currency to artificially inflate is something that's hard to take in. When the economy tanks people are driven to gov't jobs; fueling the Military Industrial Complex and the anger of the people.

talk about nonsense "likey to force Japan to attack US interests" or you mean takeover the Dutch East Indies, which was not a US interest.

You are missing the whole point which is that instead of embargoing and tempting other nations to engage in war, why not press for dialogue and trade which would deny people like Mr. Roosevelt from finding enemies to fight wars with, but instead because he extended the Great Depression, by intervening into the U.S. economy, he needed a reason to take American's minds off of his failures as a leader. If we are threatened directly then and only then should we fight to win the battle.

kzread.info/dash/bejne/e6KI2KRxirWag5M.html&feature=share Anyone who’s interested. This is part 1

poor japan

@awolatlarge

6 жыл бұрын

Joey S better to be dropped on your head than to be talking out of your ass.

@awolatlarge

6 жыл бұрын

joey s - no.

@LuisRodriguez-ox1vx

6 жыл бұрын

Japan had plenty of moral responsibility for the war as well. Did they really need to attack Pearl Harbor? Was that even a justifiable proportionate response to sanctions and freezing assets? Last time I checked, having less money and being dead are two different things.

@burritos1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuisRodriguez-ox1vx War is a complicated thing, isn't it?

@No_Anime_No_Life.

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuisRodriguez-ox1vx no only freezing assets bro, but also embargo oil if FDR keep Embargo oil on Japan for many years that will giving big suffering for Japanese people and military were they can't using cars, tanks, ships, even industries too that will stopping economy and military for Japan and riots in Empire and invasion by other nations will happend Japanese embassy in USA already trying speaking with FDR but get rejected 2 times, as result give response with military only option and that what FDR and White House staffs making this happend

You put words into his mouth and then you ask a stupid question.

The US could do 3 things...do nothing, declare war or act economically..

@bandwagon22

8 жыл бұрын

Kimmel and Short need to be set free from the injustice of their bondage and of the tyranny against them. To do otherwise bespeaks the lack of integrity within the US government and the command structure of its military.

so now we kiss and made up and toyota ,honda and Nissan are best cars on the market

@danno321s

10 жыл бұрын

William Edwards Deming was a pioneering manufacturing statistician that greatly helped the US produce quality weapons during WW2. After the war he tried to get the Big 3 to use the new method of manufacturing but was blown off. So he went to Japan where Toyoda took great interest in his manufacturing method so much so that every year the best Japanese manufacturer is awarded with the Deming Award, to this day.

@jenniapplewhite2221

7 жыл бұрын

no its just that the quality of their cars exceed in any american cars

There is always public opposition to war. The problem is that diplomacy is a subject far too complex for an average citizen to understand and yet carries enormous consequences for their prosperity and liberty. Once the enemy is at the borders it is far too late, you have to be quite a few moves ahead of that but some of you guys seem to think that the only proper use for the US military is to line them up at the US borders and leave the rest of the world to China, Russia, Iran etc to divide up.

@JUANO510

Жыл бұрын

You're disgusting! You're a warmonger bro america has no right to take any land, what do u think this is? Murder is disgusting and all these politicians should be treated like dogs for their actions

That´s not the point, the point is that the US enter the war despite public oppossition to it and when Pearl Harbor was attack, it wasnt the first confrontation that imperial japan and the US had. Second and most importantly, the world doesnt need saviour, especially one that offers peace at the point of a gun like the US and the rest of the allies, last, WWII was a direct consecuense of the outcome of WWI.

Yeah, Japan wanted to be on the allies but couldn’t because of Racism. Hitler was a weeb so allowed Japan to be “honorary aryans”.

@115islandscompass6

3 жыл бұрын

In 1919, at the League of Nations Committee of the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, Japan proposed that the "Covenant of the League of Nations" should specify the elimination of racial discrimination. Woodrow Wilson, then President of the United States, said it should be unanimously passed because of its importance, and rejected it despite having more votes in favor than against.

How did we exactly help Stalin at all gain Eastern Europe? The Eastern Front battle was primarily between Nazi Germany and The Soviet Union and neither regime was good. Whoever won the battle won that territory. Those people were doom. The only way to save them would've been if we'd fought tooth and nail to get The Red Army out of there, but no man was going to stomach another war right after the previous one finished.

@Clash_CT_Rocker69

2 жыл бұрын

General Patton was well aware of this. This is why he said: "We fought totally wrong war. Germans are civilized people, true enemy of Christian Europe are Communist bastards and we should together pushed them back in swamps from they came in Europe. Just watch what those filthy Bolshevik sons of bitches doing to civilized European nations they've put under his thumb. If we let them do what they want and gave them time to recuperate themselves, soon we'll have a big problem. Better is finish with them now, while we are still here and together with Germans and all other anti-communisam nations".

Your comment stating shoot on site , even mentioning british ships makes no sense. they were allies in the war.

@uranus4511

2 жыл бұрын

Venona document

Naive? We question authority and try to be accurate with history. You people wave a flag and parrot clichés and myth. We're naive? You don't even know what the word means.

Yah... Keep dreaming.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

@uranus4511

2 жыл бұрын

臭い物には蓋をする。アメリカの正義。

How many of you that watch this will throw a stone at those who have researched their history beyond the grammar school history books and news media? Because if you honestly believe that this is not true,you are pathetic for not doing your research with ACCURATE information.This is NO secret by the way.

Oh ok another one that lives in a vacuum

who dese people sayin FDR was worse than Stalin? I don't think Roosevelt killed tens of millions of his own citizens with his policies. your embracing ingnorance as well if you think they have a similar political style. yes yes there both way to the left but Stalin ruled his country. fdr was elected 4 times. which was legal at the time only "tradition" said he couldn't run after 2 terms. I'm not sayin he was a saint cause he wasnt. defintely positioned usa to be attacked because of econimoc policies with Japan. America gained alot from that war though and it wasn't an unjust war. Japan and Germany had it comin

@bamezu7165

7 жыл бұрын

"had it comin" is not an argument

@ersumthin2583

7 жыл бұрын

Bam Ezu no two groups deserved what they got more than Nazi leadership and Japanese leadership during ww2. point taken if youre talking about citizens. they didn't have anything to do with going to war with USA they just suffered for it

What a bunch of lies.

@burritos1000

4 жыл бұрын

Haha...you're funny...

False Flags!!