AHC/PC: Japan strikes south of China, before US embargo?

Japan might plausibly have struck south without embargo


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raharris1973

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Actually, during WWII, the Japanese threatened and bullied their way into occupying French Indochina, prior to the US freezing of their assets, and oil embargo. But, their attacks on the Dutch East Indies, British Empire and US did not start until after the embargo.

The challenge is to have Japan strike at Dutch and/or British and/or American possessions in Southeast Asia without their being an embargo by those powers?

How could this have happened? Is it even plausible?
 
No it's not plausible, before the embargo (actually caused by the invasion of FIC) there's no reason to go south, and it's not like they haven't got other issues.
 
If the Americans start the embargo on Japan for reasons other than the invasion of Indochina and those forces are used in a campaign to secure the rest of eastern China, then it is probably possible.
 
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