I wasn’t sure where to post this, world news it isn’t, so here seems to be a good catch-all comm.
It’s a collection of speculations and theories surrounding the war in Palestine and its possible origins.
going based on memory alone but I believe the FDR administration had prior warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor and specifically saw it as a flashpoint to change public opinion on US entry into the war
While I wouldn’t call Pearl Harbour a false flag per se, it certainly served the purpose of one and likely could have been prevented. Same as 9/11 three generations later.
The US capitalist class did have plans to enter the war as well (specifically the Council on Foreign Relations), but needed some sort of trigger to get the citizens on board. Pearl Harbour definitely served that purpose. Although I haven’t looked in to that time period in detail so I can’t really say more than that at the moment.
I think you can make the argument that the US might have known Pearl Harbour could be a target, and would have been a good excuse to get involved in the war. But the attack itself, coupled with a general offensive across pretty much all of east asia, was not something anyone thought could be possible. Not at the level they did, anyway. The attack itself did very little actual long term damage (sorry to all the people who died) to the yanks fighting capabilities though.
