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In OTL the sanctions mounted against Italy for its outragous attack on Abysinnia were seen as at best half hearted.

Also in OTL the sanctions the US mounted against Japan in 1940-1 seem to have persuaded the Japanese military that they had no option but to fight.

Now suppose the US and the League had mounted total economic warfare against Japan after the attack on Manchuria and total oil and other sanctions and denial of use of the Suez canal to Italy after Abyssinia might agression have actually been beaten without war.
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