"Japan ignored international law and our country's flag and attacked our Yangtze River patrol fleet and attacked the Mobil oil tanker it was escorting!" In the White House in Washington, Roosevelt had a copy of the New York Times in front of him, and it rarely used a full-page headline.

Describe the incident.

"Damn it! Who can tell me what on earth these Japanese monkeys want to do?!" Roosevelt jumped up angrily and growled at Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring in front of him.

Woodring was speechless. It is true that the Japanese army is now posing a threat. But in the view of the War Department, Japan is at most a threat to Asia, and may threaten the United States' important ally in Asia - the Tigers.

But we absolutely dare not directly conflict with the United States. After all, most of Japan's resources need to be provided by the United States. If it loses supplies from the United States, Japan can continue the war for at most half a year before collapsing on its own.

This is the United States' biggest reliance, but it seems that this reliance no longer exists. Japan's current actions are clearly to provoke a war, and it is meaningless to attack a patrol gunboat that poses no threat to them.

This approach is tantamount to forcing the United States to go to war with them!

"Hopkins, tell me! Why are these damn Japanese monkeys going crazy? I really can't figure out why they chose to attack our gunboats." After Roosevelt finished getting angry at the Secretary of War, he turned to Business

Secretary Harry L. Hopkins said.

"Don't these bastards know that their life is in our hands?! Don't these damn Japanese monkeys know that they are forcing us to strangle them to death with the tigers?!"

Hopkins shrugged and said to Roosevelt: "Your Excellency, President, you should not ask me this question. Instead, ask those damn Japanese monkeys. Our latest news is that they are acting as mass murderers in the occupied territories.

The characters, I think they are already crazy. A group of lunatics can do anything."

Obviously, Roosevelt was not satisfied with Hopkins' answer. He frowned and wanted to say something, but Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. intervened.

"Your Excellency, in my opinion, Japan's actions can be divided into two situations." Roosevelt couldn't help but become more interested after hearing Morgan's words. He turned around and said, "Oh?! Henry, what do you think?!"

"First of all, the Japanese army is not monolithic. There are radical elements among them. And these people are likely to crazyly choose to attack us, causing the established fact of war." Little Morgan lowered his head and thought softly.

"Such examples are not uncommon. The Manchurian Incident, the attack on Fujian and even the war on Shanghai were actually the actions of these radical Japanese soldiers. They kidnapped the entire Japan with war, forcing them to continue to engage in war."

The rest of the people nodded. This is also what the United States has observed. Of course, if the United States studies carefully, it will find the Japanese royal family behind these wars. Unfortunately, Asia has never been the focus of the United States. What they value more is Europe and

The situation in the Soviet Union.

It is a pity that in the early and middle stages of World War II, the entire United States, from high-level to middle-level, misjudged the entire situation in Japan. They really believed that the emperor was just a rubber stamp in the constitutional monarchy.

Little did they know, in fact, the entire Japanese navy and army were firmly in the hands of Hirohito! It was not until the end of the war that the United States began to discover this situation.

In fact, the United States was extremely shocked when Hirohito said that the entire Japanese army chose to surrender. He could not imagine that one person's rights could be so great.

There was no restriction, no resistance. Just because of his words, hundreds of thousands or even millions of Japanese troops from south to north just laid down their weapons.

"There is another possibility: Japan is testing our attitude, or they are testing our bottom line!" Little Morgan paused and continued: "Japan cannot always tolerate us controlling their lifeline. In fact, our interests in Manchuria

We will never be allowed to abandon the three northeastern provinces."

"We and Japan are natural enemies. If Japan wants to continue the war and get rid of our control of their oil and steel, it must invade the three northeastern provinces. And most of our investments are in the three northeastern provinces.

.In other words, it is impossible for us to sit back and watch the Japanese invasion pass."

Little Morgan took a deep breath and said solemnly: "There is no compromise between us and Japan!"

Roosevelt remained silent, and even no one in the entire office spoke. After a long time, Roosevelt said in a deep voice: "Spread this report. We need the people to be prepared. War may come at any time. Maybe we are facing the enemy.

More vicious than we imagined!"

Subsequently, the entire United States fell into a big discussion about the Japanese bombardment of the Panay! Everyone was furious and angrily denounced the damn Japanese monkeys!

At this moment, the will of the entire United States seemed so unified. This is not surprising. Historically, the United States had far more trade with Japan than with China. This resulted in the United States always being hesitant to intervene in the Sino-Japanese War.

Undecided.

According to statistics: In 1937, the export volume of the United States to Japan was 288.588 million U.S. dollars, and to China was only 49.703 million U.S. dollars. In 1938, the U.S. export volume to Japan was 239.575 million U.S. dollars, and to China was only 34.772 million U.S. dollars.

In terms of investment, it was estimated in May 1940 that the total amount of U.S. investment in Japan reached $500 million. In fact, U.S. capital still held $100 million in Japanese government bonds at that time!

This is why the United States is hesitant and encounters resistance on the issue of going to war with Japan.

It is precisely because of this that Joseph Gru, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and representative of the Japanese appeasement faction, once claimed.

"Our vital interest is that Japan should remain a strong, prosperous and productive country under conditions of peace, justice, stability and security. Our mutual trade and other relations should flourish in the future as they have in the past."

All this illustrates the problem that the so-called "just war" is actually nothing more than a war of interests.

But the current situation is completely different. Whether it is oil, steel or imported rare metals and raw materials, the trade volume between the three northeastern provinces and the United States far exceeds that of Japan several times!

Even the investment in the three northeastern provinces made the United States absolutely unable to abandon the three northeastern provinces. As a result, the situation was completely reversed from the historical situation.

The United States now absolutely does not allow Japan to invade the three northeastern provinces. For this reason, the U.S. Congress is still discussing whether to sell more warships to the three northeastern provinces so that they can protect the capital interests of the United States in the three northeastern provinces.

Capital kidnapping! This is complete capital kidnapping. In fact, this kind of thing has also happened in other countries in later generations. The mutual kidnapping of capital has led to the fact that although big countries fight openly and secretly, they will never watch another country lie down.

Because of the mutual penetration of capital, once a big country collapses, all countries will be implicated. The most obvious examples are China and the United States in later generations.

Neither party wants to see the other party collapse like this, but both parties want the other party to stop trying to control them so forcefully.

The strategy adopted by the United States is to continuously support pro-American people, which includes those agents supported by the Democracy Fund. It is also commonly known as the Leading Party.

The policy adopted by China is the kidnapping of capital and interests. It forces the United States to make concessions on certain things to maintain a balance between the two sides.

The reason why the United States was able to get rid of the Soviet Union without any scruples was that there was basically no economic interest between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, the relationship between China and the United States was more complicated, and the entanglement of interests between the two sides was too deep.

This has resulted in the United States being constrained in dealing with China. When they bite the bullet and take action, they discover that this country has grown into a behemoth.

When the United States launched its Day of Denunciation with great fanfare, the three northeastern provinces also held a meeting over the matter.

"I think the United States will not easily intervene in the war, at least they are not ready yet. Therefore, they will not easily intervene in the war." Yan Zhengqing looked at the crowd and said solemnly: "But with our production capacity, we have to compete with Japan.

I tried my best but still fell short."

"Although the United States will not go to war with Japan, it is still okay for us to encourage the United States to cut off part of its trade with Japan." Yan Zhengqing paused and continued with a smile: "Who told us to kidnap so many interests of the United States?!"

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this. In fact, it was not just the United States?! The United Kingdom and Germany actually had many interests kidnapped by the three eastern provinces.

"I basically agree with the views of the Governor-General's Office." The speaker was Yang Ziren, who had now adapted to his status as a senior member of the three eastern provinces. He smiled at Yan Zhengqing.

"But our war against Japan cannot be delayed. The situation in Nanjing is not good now. It has become a war of attrition. Lu Han's 60th Army has just arrived in Changsha. I'm afraid Nanjing won't be able to withstand it..."

Yang Ziren expressed everyone's feelings. The war has been going on for more than a month and a half. The National Defense Forces without heavy artillery firepower and the original Nanjing defenders have been holding on in Nanjing for more than half a month.

According to the battle reports returned, more than 6,000 people were killed and more than 14,000 were injured. The entire Nanjing garrison now has less than 100,000 people, and they face more than 200,000 people, with heavy artillery and aircraft support

Japanese army!

The hardship of the battle can be imagined. Can they support Lu Han's 60th Army until they arrive in Nanjing?! Everyone has a question in their hearts, but no one can say it.

"You have to hold on even if you can't!" In the silence, Tu Qianjun said with a stern look in his eyes: "There are people in our National Defense Force who died in battle without retreating! I said hold on, even if my bones are reduced to crumbs, I have to hold on.
Chapter completed!