Trump made a joke about Pearl Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor wasn't a surprise though.
Yeah - Didn’t the intelligence agencies know it was going to happen?
Yes, and many others in the federal government knew, which is why they sent the carriers out of Pearl Harbor before the attack, because they knew we'd need them afterward. The reason being, is that the American public overwhelmingly didn't support the U.S. entering into another world war, so they (the string pullers) needed a reason to convince the public we had to go to war, even though we were technically already involved. We'd been supplying the Soviet Union and Britain with tons of supplies for years prior, and we imposed an embargo, including oil, on Japan prior to Pearl which essentially forced Japan to attack us to stop the embargo, because they needed oil to continue their war effort.
and it basically came down to a coin flip whether the japs were going to hit pearl harbor or the soviets
or it would if communists hadn't been wormtongueing them
They deliberately moved their fleet closer to Japan in order to instigate them into attacking first:
"The primary naval force that eventually called Pearl Harbor was moved from the U.S. West Coast. In May 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the U.S. Pacific Fleet to leave its home port in San Pedro, California, and take up a permanent, forward-positioned base at Pearl Harbor as a deterrent to Japanese expansionism. The Pacific Fleet's headquarters was officially transferred from San Diego to Pearl Harbor in 1939, which accelerated the base's development before the fleet's main body arrived in 1940."