The Japanese army of millions swept through Southeast Asia like locusts, leaving only Indonesia and the American colony of the Philippines. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As for France, a tragic player in World War II, and its ally Britain, the flames of war in Europe have been ignited, and the French and British imperial governments have no time to look to the far East, pinning their hopes on the United States, an ally of the First World War, strongly demanding that the United States end trade with Japan and Japan, impose sanctions on them, and hope that the United States will send troops to intervene in Asia.

However, at this time in the United States, domestic isolationism was rampant, and Roosevelt rejected the request of the British Empire.

It is true that the United States is permeated with isolationist tendencies from top to bottom, and as a democratically elected president, Roosevelt could not go against the will of the people.

The United States is geographically bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Because of historical and geographical factors, there is a kind of "isolationist" sentiment in the United States that focuses on homeland security.

Especially in the 30s, after Roosevelt was elected president of the United States, due to the increasingly dangerous international situation, isolationism occupied the mainstream of public opinion, and they believed that the United States should not intervene in affairs outside the American continent, should not participate in European disputes, and should not be involved in future European wars.

Why is it so coincidental that isolationism prevails in the United States at a time when the pace of world war is getting closer and closer?

We cannot ignore the essence of American society, although the United States was tormented by the Great Depression, most of the victims were the lower classes of the United States, and American capital, which held huge wealth, saw an opportunity to make a fortune.

After the Great Depression, American capital keenly discovered that the world was going to be chaotic, and the pace of war was coming step by step, and the outbreak of war meant that American capital could make a lot of war money.

Whether it was Germany or Britain in the war, both sides of the war needed strategic resources, and American capital could provide war resources or loans to both sides of the war.

However, if the United States enters the war, it will inevitably harm the interests of American capital.

So, public opinion in the United States has fallen for isolationism very in a timely manner.

It is not surprising at all that public opinion is always in the hands of American capital, and nothing else, including Roosevelt.

Yes, during World War I, the United States was allied with Britain and France, and it seemed inappropriate to refuse the requests of Britain and France.

Whether or not to enter the war was decided in the interests of the United States, and Roosevelt could speak with public opinion, and France and the British Empire did not seem to be at odds.

Roosevelt was very confident, he was not worried that the expansion of the Japanese would threaten the Philippines, the war of the Japanese could not do without American oil, rubber and steel, if the Japanese army attacked the American colonies, Roosevelt would not hesitate to cut off the supply of the Japanese Japanese.

Let me ask, without fuel and steel, can the war machine of the Japanese and Japanese continue?

It can be said that without the support of US strategic materials, the Japanese and Japanese armies would soon be unable to fight the war of aggression against China.

It is undeniable that after the Great Depression, there have been signs of recovery in the United States this year, the employment rate is rising, and Roosevelt, whose approval rating has been declining since the Silver Act, has shown positive growth for the first time.

Against this background, it would have been strange if Roosevelt had acceded to the request of the British!

Of course, in order to save face for the British, Roosevelt issued a statement strongly condemning the aggression of the Japanese army.

What can be done has been done, that's all.

There is no need to doubt the wisdom of American capital, they are pragmatists, and the two world wars made the United States from a third-rate country to the first economic and military power.

This has nothing to do with justice, and the so-called justice is nothing more than the product of the post-war glorification of the Allies.

The essence behind American democracy is capital, to be precise, the United States is a country with a very strong business atmosphere, they pay attention to interests, and the standard for measuring the world is also interests.

Historically, the victories in World War I and World War II all showed the great success of its capital calculations and also pushed the United States to the throne of world hegemony.

American capital is also divided into pro-British and pro-German factions, and on the eve of World War II, at least 42 percent of the $11.2 billion in US foreign investment was in Britain.

The pro-German faction represents another group of consortia in the eastern part of the United States, such as Kuhn Robbie, Rockefeller, Mellon, DuPont and other monopolies, including some subsidiaries of the Morgan consortium, which have huge economic interests in Germany.

As early as the implementation of the Dawes plan, they invested heavily in Germany. From 1924 to 1926 alone, Germany received $580 million in loans, accounting for more than 65 percent of the total loans to Germany, which enabled Germany to quickly rise from the ashes of World War I.

The outbreak of war means that a huge amount of orders will flow to the United States, wealth will roll in, and capital will be the biggest profiteer, which is the essence of isolationism.

These characters outwardly sing "peace", but in fact they are not pacifists, but they want to make the most of the profits by starting a war from Germany.

But all this had to be based on the fact that the United States would not take part in a war against Germany.

If the United States stands on either side of the war, it will inevitably lose the market of the other side, and American capital does not want to see such a situation. If the United States were to be forced into a war, the consequences would be unpredictable and potentially catastrophic.

In order to pursue a pro-German policy, they put on the cloak of "isolationism" and vigorously advocated strict "neutrality" in the European war.

The calculations of the Americans were beautiful, and Roosevelt did not believe that the Japanese would be willing to risk losing the support of American war resources, and the army would wage war against the United States.

There is an accident in everything, and the Japanese army in this life is not in a good war in China, and has realized the great threat of the Northland Volunteers. The Japanese army began to withdraw its troops in an orderly manner, focusing on other parts of Asia.

Withdrawing from the Chinese battlefield would mean that the Japanese would save a large number of troops and be able to challenge the military power of the United States in the Pacific.

In fact, the Emperor of Japan had already approved the Japanese army's plan for fighting against the United States.

Now that only the US army is left in Asia, the Japanese are making final preparations to give the US Pacific forces a hard blow.

According to the battle plan, the Japanese would launch simultaneous offensives against Pearl Harbor and the Philippines.

In the Philippine Islands, Admiral MacArthur, the commander of the U.S. Far East, has about 130,000 troops. Among them, there are nearly 20,000 US troops, more than 110,000 Philippine troops, 45 warships, and more than 200 aircraft.

In the face of the locust-like Japanese army, what should the 20,000 American troops do?

And at Pearl Harbor, the incumbent commander was Admiral Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet.

Ships at Pearl Harbor: USS Saratoga, 8 battleships (USS Pennsylvania, USS California, USS Maryland, USS Oklahoma, USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia, USS Arizona, USS Nevada), 3 light cruisers, 3 seaplane supply ships, 29 destroyers.

Pearl Harbor ships: 4 light cruisers, 3 destroyers.

The strength of the U.S. Pacific Fleet cannot be underestimated, but the Japanese and Japanese navies will not fight a head-on confrontation and carry out a sneak attack on it, as has happened in history.

The only difference is that in addition to attacking the U.S. Navy, the Japanese army had to land here and occupy Honolulu.