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May 19, 2023Liked by The Underdog

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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