After Japan ordered China's principal supply road closed. You do not seem to know it was only high octane aviation oil that was sanctioned-NOT all oil/petroleum. There was a legitimate reason for that.
Was the Emperor ready to surrender? Absolutely not, even after the Potsdam Declaration in July of 45, the Emperor decided it would not capitulate. When they refused to surrender the bombs were dropped. Finally, shortly after the second bomb drop, on Aug 15, 1945 Emperor Hirohito then surrendered.
The reason for this was FDR's murderous unconditional surrender policy.
And besides, do you think civilians deserve destruction because their emperor is nuts?
Hirohito may have been nuts.
But FDR worsened the condition when he froze Japanese assets and would not allow oil companies to sell them petroleum
BEFORE the Peal Harbor attack. An Act of War indeed.
How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt hoped that such sanctions would goad the Japanese into making a rash mistake by launching a war against the United States, which would bring in Germany because Japan and Germany were allied.
Accordingly, the Roosevelt administration, while curtly dismissing Japanese diplomatic overtures to harmonize relations, imposed a series of increasingly stringent economic sanctions on Japan. In 1939 the United States terminated the 1911 commercial treaty with Japan. “On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “[o]n July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”
[2] The British and the Dutch followed suit, embargoing exports to Japan from their colonies in southeast Asia"
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From the article you posted...
Roosevelt and his subordinates knew they were putting Japan in an untenable position and that the Japanese government might well try to escape the stranglehold by going to war. Having broken the Japanese diplomatic code, the Americans knew, among many other things, what Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda had communicated to Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura on July 31: “Commercial and economic relations between Japan and third countries, led by England and the United States, are gradually becoming so horribly strained that we cannot endure it much longer. Consequently, our Empire, to save its very life, must take measures to secure the raw materials of the South Seas.”
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Because American cryptographers had also broken the Japanese naval code, the leaders in Washington knew as well that Japan’s “measures” would include an attack on Pearl Harbor.
[4] Yet they withheld this critical information from the commanders in Hawaii, who might have headed off the attack or prepared themselves to defend against it. That Roosevelt and his chieftains did not ring the tocsin makes perfect sense: after all, the impending attack constituted precisely what they had been seeking for a long time. As Stimson confided to his diary after a meeting of the war cabinet on November 25, “The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.”
[5] After the attack, Stimson confessed that “my first feeling was of relief ... that a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people.
Now...that is the unknown and untold truth, which most Americans are completely clueless of. FDR did all he could to position Japan to attack. He knew the attack was coming before it occurred and set up our armed forces for death and destruction at Pearl Harbor.
He was a traitor.