Lukacs is usually right. Roosevelt would have figured out a way to get us in against Germany, which he wisely realized was a much greater foe than Japan.
It was pretty much inevitable that the US and Japan would go to war: the US positions in the Philippines were right in the way of Japanese expansion. And Japan's alliance with Germany obligated the Germans ti declare war on us when war with Japan came.
John Lukacs says he had no choice. Hitler, I mean.
Lukacs is usually right. Roosevelt would have figured out a way to get us in against Germany, which he wisely realized was a much greater foe than Japan.
It was pretty much inevitable that the US and Japan would go to war: the US positions in the Philippines were right in the way of Japanese expansion. And Japan's alliance with Germany obligated the Germans ti declare war on us when war with Japan came.