What was America's justification for placing an oil embargo on Japan in the first place?

What was America's justification for placing an oil embargo on Japan in the first place?

Because America was sucking British dick for no understandable reason since WW1.

Because America didn't want to have any part in the atrocities that the Japanese were committing

Also because the Aussies/Kiwis/Nationalist Chinese were allies of the USA

There was also concern of Japan attacking the Philippines

Because Roosevelt was a fucking idiot. Japan didnt want a war with the US, they wanted to fight Soviet Union.

>fuelling the war machine of an empire that is attacking countries where you have business interests

Mfw you realise war of independence was an Anglo civil war and this empire whose leaders and owners transcend public spotlight and nation statism run the world.

>we iz Rome n shit

America viewed Britain as a historical enemy and sided against them at every point pretty much until WW1.

Until they had them in their pocket over the credits given in WW1 and then the Washington Fleet conference of 1922. At that point the US became the Empire.

If they didn't want war they shouldn't have attacked us.

Oil embargo is not an act of war.
If embargo is act of war why USA is not at war with Cuba?

Wrong
US/UK first time working together was Spanish-American War, and the first war we fought together was the Second Samoan Civil War.

>Oil embargo is not an act of war.
How about freezing all Japanese assets in the US?

Like we do to North Korea?

>didn't want a war with the US
>attacks the US

What did they mean by this?

A faction in the IJA wanted to fight the Soviets, and by the time of the embargo they were in the minority as the Soviets won the border clashes in 38-39.

>Second Samoan Civil War
Wait what. Any info on that?

>Like WE do to
The fact that you refer to the actions of your country's elites as "we" disqualifies you from getting an answer bcause you clearly cannot change a perspective.

WE

WERZ

ELECTORATE

N ***** Y'ALL

Japan also kept killing Americans who were living in China as well.

Do you think they think any differently? Do you really think the Communists view us as individuals?

The "We" shows a nationalistic world view. You are not part of a sports team but citizen of a country. As a sentient being it should be possible to change your perspective to something more neutral and maybe from someone else's point.
There is no argument that would change your view though, you'll always fall back to justifying the US side of things.

Japan invading French indochina. This is a really easy thing to just google.

I'm pretty sure they wanted oil and other resources very badly, and I don't think that's something they could have gotten just by occupying parts of the Eastern USSR.

>I'm pretty sure they wanted oil and other resources very badly
Correct, Japanese oil demands were exceeding supply by insane amounts
>The shortage of oil was at the foundation of much of Japan's logistical difficulties. When war broke out, the Japanese Navy had managed to stockpile about 6 million tons of oil. This was thought to be sufficient for the first year of war, but consumption greatly exceeded prewar projections. The Army estimated it would require 800,000 tons per year while Navy requirements were estimated at 2.5 million tons per year and civilian requirements at 1.8 million tons per year. Actual consumption proved to be at least twice what had been projected. By August 1942 the oil shortage had already begun limiting the kinds of operations the Japanese could carry out, and this was aggravated by the lack of forward oil storage facilities. For example, oil storage at Truk amounted to just 77,200 tons, enough to completely refuel Yamato just twelve times. The Japanese attempted to make up the shortage by anchoring oilers in Truk lagoon, but this further aggravated the oiler shortage. It is likely that fuel shortages were a significant part of the reason Yamamoto was reluctant to commit his battleships in the Guadalcanal campaign

Samoa was split between Anglo/American and German interests and both sides sponsored a prospective chief in the war