>>16396772Its widely considered one of his biggest mistakes. The US had a lot of antiwar sentiment at the time and if he hadnt there would have been great pressure inside the US to keep us only in the pacific war
Its believed he did it for 2 reasons. 1 in hopes that japan would declare war on the USSR and divert their siberian divisions and 2 because “international jewery” in the US had already defacto declared war on germany with their lend lease to the UK and USSR. He was semi right on that but the difference between supplies and actual american bombers flying over germany and landing on beaches is substantial.
