Among other things such as the us expansion into the pacific and the oil embargo. But holy shit, love learning about history not taught in schools, very eye opening.
I learned in school that Japan had no choice but to attack us, because they needed our oil or else they wouldn’t be able to do war anymore.
This was in like 2004, for context
Uh
So anyway, they could have just stopped committing genocide actually, but nobody cares about that because the victims were Chinese
Giving them oil would have been aiding yet another genocide, basically its own war crime, might as well manufacture Zyklon B
Japan definitely only did imperialism because of the West, but it doesn’t absolve them of much of anything - a soladaristic fight against imperial domination would have looked quiiiiiite a bit different.
