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I quite believe that the US govt knew well in advance that Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed, and I think they decided the loss of life was worth it to get a country ready to go to war. The only way America was going further than lend-lease was to have a nation stirred up like a hornets nest and looking for revenge. Otherwise our troops would have waited to go over until there was an invasion on our soil elsewhere, which might not have happened. Churchill and FDR were both aware of Hitlers blinding ambitions, Stalins inability to be trusted -- both because he was who he was and because he most likely had a clue that his non agression pact with Hitler would only suit Hitler for so long -- evidenced by Germanys attack on Russia...
Ah well, the principals are all dead, and while you can research a topic to death, who knows what documents and proof have been destroyed and what survived that was fake...
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