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Originally Posted by Roddoss72
And yet here in lies the twist, even in your senario, no Pearl Harbour Mk 2, so Japan does not provoke America with an attack on American soil or interests, America would have to contravene it's Neutrality Act to launch an unprovoked pre-emptive stike on Japan, but here is the kicker, how does the US President convince not only Congress and Senate to envoke a declaration of war on Japan without provication and then convince the US population to send their sons to die for a brutal communist regime, when only 18 monts ago, would not send in anyone to help out Britain a fellow democratic nation. So my answer is that Japan does nothing. Make the Americans the agressor nation.
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And, the Japanese economy collapses entirely in under 6 months. The US has to do nothing beyond enforce their embargo. Japan has no indigenous oil production worth mentioning, no sources of iron that are worthwhile, etc., they cannot make up what they lose when the US and Britain (along with the Dutch) embargo them.
The ball is in Japan's court here.