Sarah Paine
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Because think about Britain, how did it all work?
Fall of Norway, fall of France, then they lost Crete.
We aren't even in the war.
They're about losing everything and we're not doing anything.
So, wait a second.
Now I'm losing my track of my train of thought.
Revisit the question again, please.
Can somebody in the audience remind me of the question?
Okay.
Yeah, the optimism of the Japanese.
So they're looking at it and going, the United States is not bailing out its key ally.
Hawaii is a colony, right?
It's a bunch of white people dominating Hawaiians.
So we're just going to do a little...
And set an example that, hey, if you mess with us, it's going to get costly.
And we know you don't have much trade in Asia.
Sure, we want to buy your oil, but overall, most trades elsewhere.
And so they're looking at it isolationist.
Well, won't the answer be the isolationists go, ooh, this is expensive.
Let's get out of here.