It makes an appeal to popular opinion as if that opinion wasn't dictated by the commie press(aka Council on Foreign Relations). Those are excuses for FDR to pursue his progressive bullshit, not US problems. If Japan was the aggressor or even just a decent Axis ally, they never would have allowed US supplies to freely transit on USSR flagged ships through its territorial waters.
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwii/88734.htm
It makes an appeal to popular opinion as if that opinion wasn't dictated by the commie press(aka Council on Foreign Relations). Those are excuses for FDR to pursue his progressive bullshit, not US problems. If Japan was the aggressor or even just a decent Axis ally, they never would have allowed US supplies to freely transit on USSR flagged ships through its territorial waters.