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Debating Whether Roosevelt Wanted the US in War Against Japan Ignores the Fact that the US was Already in a Proxy War with Japan
Modern histories on WWII offer an opposing viewpoint that the war in China was a proxy war not only for the US but for Great Britain as well. Japan was already in a war with the US, as well as the Soviet Union, without a single US troop, and FDR was possibly following that principle.