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Nice change of pace, UD. Heh its funny you brought up Chennault's Flying Tigers. I read a book in Middle School about them. The Flying Tigers were described as American volunteer mercenaries similar to the volunteers that flew for Britain. The P-40s were inferior to Japanese craft and so they had to develop special tactics. The book made very clear that the forces were fighting on behalf of Kai-Shek's Nationalist government-in-exile. Plausible deniability has been around for a long time.

In regards to provocations, one could also mention the Lend-Lease Act. Another would be the oil embargo Roosevelt forced on the Japanese. Economic sanctions are nothing new. Roosevelt needed a solid causus belli.

The US has cracked the JN-25 code and knew everything the Japanese did. Roosevelt knew Pearl Harbor was being attacked and stood by. Funny how all the carriers set to sea but nearly all of the old legacy fleet was in harbor. American boys had to die so that the traitorous Roosevelt could get his war. Ordo ab chao.

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The oil embargo, for the longest time, was why I thought the Japanese had attacked, after all, that is what is taught in schools and by historians. They omit the fact the US cracked the JN-25 code, and information swirls the US government, as you say, knew the attacks were coming. Their justification for not notifying Pearl Harbour is that, oddly, Japan did not declare war in advance (??? why would their enemy have to notify them of an attack they already knew about?).

Then there's, of course, the fact Pearl Harbour were operating radar, and would have the means to determine an incoming attack, and claimed the reason they didn't notify is they thought the system was showing an error.

History animation channel Yarnhub details how two hungover gentlemen took to the air *against direct orders not to do so* in order to engage the Japanese (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlcyV498g8, it's a good video).

Neither of them received medals for their actions because they weren't under orders to engage the Japanese. This is despite the fact other individuals on the ground received medals despite also not following orders, largely because most of their efforts involved saving people rather than meaningful defence (so there are obvious indications the US government wanted the air attack to happen without resistance).

And of course, as by magic, the G7 leaders have held talks in Hiroshima, a civilian city nuclear bombed by the US, where they lecture Russia about nuclear de-escalation:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/g7-day-1-leaders-lecture-russia-china-nuclear-de-escalation-while-standing-city-nuked

These psychopaths know exactly what they are doing.

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