But no attack on the US means no attack on the Phillipines... would the Japanese have ever countenanced an American military base in the middle of their empire?
But would FDR have forgone war with Japan in the interest of trying to provoke and go to war with Nazi Germany (because, even right after Pearl Harbor it was not clear at all that Hitler would honor the Tripartite Pact and go to war with the US; the Japanese certainly wouldn't have returned the...
By the beginning of 1941, with Japan part of the Tripartite Pact, and the U.S raw materials and fuel embargo against Japan in place, would it have been possible for Japan to have pulled back from the brink of war with the US, or would the pressure for resources have been too overwhelming?
Or...