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If you go back to my post you'll notice that I already answered this. To summarize: A US embargo was probably inevitable at some point, but a US embargo in the summer of 1941 was actually a major mistake from the point of view of the western Allies. The more rational course for the US would have been to wait until summer or autumn of 1942 before imposing the embargo because by then they would have had a fair chance of keeping the Japanese from simply taking the Netherlands East Indies oil.

Not wanting to go off-topic, just wanted to discuss this possibility.

Way I see it, if they waited till summer 1942, the problem would have been solved by itself. In the meaning Japan would neutralize any resistance in China. I may be wrong on this, though. IIRC, taking Indochina effectively reduced help to China to insignificant amount and Soviet help dried up after their deal with Japanese. This means KMT war effort would start collapsing soon. Again IMHO.

Would later embargo serve any purpose at all?
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