re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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However, specific Japanese attack planning began in early 1941. It surrounded plans to capture South Pacific raw resources. That was two years or so after the US terminated its commercial treaty with Japan, and 6 mos after we passed the Export Control Act and sundry embargoes.

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You realize I went over this in my link, with references to the differences between what FDR wanted in terms of the embargo and what was actually implemented by Assistant SOS Dean Acheson. The war plans for Pearl Harbor were finished in April of 1941, four months before the oil embargo went into effect. The decision to attack was made by the Liaison Committee on September 6th at the 6th Imperial Conference. Between September 4th and September 25th, Cordell Hull was made aware of the extent of the oil embargo through discussions with Ambassador Nomura, which he discussed at that time with FDR, who decided that rolling back the embargo might be a sign of negotiating weakness.

But the actual origins of the war plan began in not response to the US, but Britain. In July of 1940, under the new leadership of Prince Konoe Fuminaro, the Imperial Army began to make plans to launch attacks against British possessions in the East. It was only the Imperial Navy who insisted that the planning should include possible American intervention, after a military exercise in May of 1940, where the scale of the reliance on American oil was revealed.

That the intractability of Japanese demands given their resource limitations is somehow oddly not held against the Japanese, and yet they acted in a way for a year before the embargo was put in place so as to ensure it's conclusion and you regard the US as having 'pushed Japan' towards that end? That's not the way things work. You are reducing Japanese agency here because they knew the limitations of their geopolitical aims and yet still tried to go past those limitations. What should have been a move to mediate their own expansionist aims is instead seen as the US forcing them to act is a very curious description, which fits in with the way you tend to describe non-American agency in general. It isn't accurate, no matter how many times you repeat it. It's frankly an insane and idiotic way of looking at geopolitics.

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soul is so perverted and satanic

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An absolutely staggering lack of self awareness.

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It is strange that Ukraine doesn't draft 18 to 24 year olds (last I heard). The cemeteries from D-Day have a great many 18 to 24 year olds.

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If Ukraine doesn't preserve its 18-24 year old men, there won't be a Ukraine.

8 downvoters don't understand demographics.

ISW Update Aug 2

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Key Takeaways:

Ukrainian forces reportedly struck four Russian S-400 air defense missile launchers, an S-500 air defense system, and the Russian Black Sea Fleet's (BSF) Rostov-on-Don Kilo-class submarine in occupied Crimea on August 2.

Ukrainian forces also conducted a series of successful drone strikes against likely military targets in Rostov, Kursk, and Belgorod oblasts on August 3.

The Kremlin reportedly planned to transfer unspecified missiles and other military equipment to the Houthis in Yemen but did not transfer the materiel following diplomatic pressure. Russia's reported plan highlights its growing military partnership with Iran and suggests that Russia likely aims to leverage Iranian proxies to indirectly confront the West and shape Western decision making.

Putin's willingness to consider supporting the Houthis as they attack Israel and international shipping is part of deepening Russian-Iranian military cooperation and Russia's increasing reliance on Iran for high-precision weapons and components.

Russian forces recently advanced near Kreminna, Siversk, and Chasiv Yar.

Russian authorities continue efforts to financially incentivize Russian military service in Ukraine.

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Did we ever get confirmation or discreditation of the Ukrainian claims about sinking the submarine?

Yea the satellite photos show it there then gone. I guess it’s sitting on the bottom of the Sevastopol Bay. It also seems that Ukraine has hit Morozovsk airfield yet again. No word on the damages.

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Yea the satellite photos show it there then gone.

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Yea the satellite photos show it there then gone. I guess it’s sitting on the bottom of the Sevastopol Bay.

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Without its crew of 52?

Lack of water and cholera hit Crimea as well as Russian troops in the occupied part of Kherson Obast.

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