PoliticalChic
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Is China south of Japan?Oil was a major factor in Japan's strategic planning. The "land of the rising sun" had also, in comparatively recent times, emerged from the backwaters to the status of an advanced power. What it lacked, as an expanding empire with high industrial ambitions, was an adequate supply of its own energy resources. The big question for Japanese rulers: to attack the Soviets for access to their oil fields, or direct the Asian empire's fire "southward" to one of the Western powers. (Pre World War II, the U.S. was the world's most prolific oil producer.)
The US stuck its nose where it had no good excuse to- regardless of who was tickling whose fancy at the time-
I can't find in the constitution where meddling in foreign affairs is a directive of anyone in the US- maybe I haven't read it enough times. Perhaps you could point out that authority granted- and, while on that subject, maybe you could point out the authority to restrict trade to gov't approved deals- I can't find that either.
"Summary
- Both the president and Congress have some exclusive foreign policy powers, while others are shared or not explicitly assigned by the Constitution.
- These two branches of government often clash over foreign policy–making, particularly when it comes to military operations, foreign aid, and immigration.
- The judicial branch is limited in how much it can arbitrate constitutional disputes over foreign policy, and it is often reluctant to."
- https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-foreign-policy-powers-congress-and-president
The problem, of course, is that Franklin Roosevelt gave our foreign policy to Joseph Stalin.
a. Stalin declared that Germany not be allowed to surrender unless it had been utterly destroyed first, so as not to bar his occupation of Europe.
b. Stalin declared that the attack of D-Day be at Normandy, not the more tactical advance through Italy, already conquered.
c. Stalin refused to release 25,000 American troops he had captured from the Nazis.
d. Stalin demanded 3 votes in the United Nations, to our one.
e. Stalin demanded that General Patton be sidelined...and so it was.