Scott Horton

As the Secretary of War Stimson wrote in his diary, by all means, the Japanese must be maneuvered into firing the first shot.

And then they used that.

They set up 3,000 American sailors to die so they could get us into the war in Europe.

And so they did.

And then Hitler, by the way, Hitler declared war on the United States.

So FDR wouldn't have been able to do that unless he made that absolute idiot blunder, which he did because, and it's funny because I had always heard that this was just such a stupid mistake, but there was a reason that he did it.

The reason that he did it was because he wanted the, if he declared war on the United States, he wanted the Japanese to then declare war on the Soviet Union.

And then that way the Soviets would have to divide their forces, which would benefit Germany.

But the Japanese did not declare war on the Soviet Union.

So Hitler rolled those dice and lost.

He provoked America into entering the European war, but he didn't convince the Japanese to entering the war against the USSR in the East.

and so screwed himself in that way.

But that's the explanation of why he declared war on the United States.

But there's no question of FDR's treason there.

They knew the attack was coming.

They left all the guys out there, had them bunch all their ships up together to protect against sabotage when they were just setting them up perfect to be sunk.

It was such a lucky coincidence that all our aircraft carriers were out at sea that day, and it was all the obsolete old World War I ships that got sunk.

3,500 guys killed.

That's fucking insane.

It's crazy.