Nickrobl t1_iy1mr33 wrote on November 28, 2022 at 1:36 AM

Reply to comment by sharksnut in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

The list of possible exporters for Japan in 1940 is much smaller than you might expect, especially when the US/UK/Dutch cut you off and pressure their allies and companies to do likewise.

sharksnut t1_iy1son9 wrote on November 28, 2022 at 2:22 AM

>UK/Dutch cut you off

Again, which have nothing to do with the US embargo

If you've alienated multiple trading partners with your genocidal ways, that's on you