Pearl Harbor 2.0

Economic warfare has deadly and sometimes warranted reactions. Samuel Clemens said it best when he said "history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes". I truly believe that NK is a grave threat to many, but the build-up to dealing with this issue sounds alot like 1940, and the build-up to Pearl Harbor. We desperately want to deal with the issue, but don't have the public backing due to being in a constant state of war since 9/11. The citizens have grown weary of wars of liberation, terrorism, and globalism. But is a NK war the much needed war, clouded by the perils of public opinion? We pounded Iraq because we "believed" they had WMD's. We "know" NK has them, and has openly threatened attacks on the homeland and bases stationed around the World. The sanctions we just put in place cuts off literally 1/3 of NK's yearly GDP, granted only if member states hold up their end of the sanction enforcement. We want to, but we can't. But we can force the hand of the other party involved to give us the excuse we need.

Replace Trump with Roosevelt, North Korea with Japan, and 1941 with 2017, and i believe we are on the cusp of Pearl Harbor 2.0.

Are you ready?



How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor

"In 1939 the United States terminated the 1911 commercial treaty with Japan. “On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “[o]n July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”[2] The British and the Dutch followed suit, embargoing exports to Japan from their colonies in southeast Asia."
[link to www.independent.org]

What the new U.N. sanctions on North Korea mean

"In response to a missile launch last year, the Security Council passed Resolution 2270. The harshest sanctions yet, these sweeping measures took the punishment a step further by targeting North Korean economic activity not directly related to proliferation, including the export of mineral resources such as coal or iron. The new sanctions in Resolution 2371 largely expand upon those measures, broadening a cap on coal and iron exports to a full-fledged ban and adding restrictions on things such as seafood exports and the use of North Korean laborers abroad."
[link to www.washingtonpost.com (secure)]