• Alteon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m worried that they DID know, and are using this as an excuse to further their agenda against Palestinians.

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          Well, it really did work in the US. This is literally what happened at Pearl Harbor.

          Roosevelt knew the attack was coming, very much so, our intelligence was good. But he needed the attack to happen, so he let it happen.

          At the time, Europe was at war and our allies desperately needed help, but the US had been dragging it’s heels about getting involved for years. Roosevelt wanted to enter the war and support our allies, but congress just didn’t want to make the official declaration of war. But after the attack on Pearl harbor, that declaration came in short order, just as Roosevelt knew it would.

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            1 year ago

            This is untrue. This is a false conspiracy theory that people keep repeating that has no facts to back it up. This one bugs me because my grandfather was in the merchant Marines and was stationed there when this happened. People parroting that untrue fact drove him bonkers.

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      What was the prior situation with the reservists? Did they backtrack on their no show threats before the war broke or was the war what forced them to show up