Is President Trump's 'Maximum Pressure' Against Iran The Same Strategy FDR Used On Japan Before Pearl Harbor

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Jacob G. Hornberger, The Future of Freedom Foundation: Trump, FDR, and War

President Trump’s campaign of “maximum pressure” against Iran reminds me of President Franklin Roosevelt’s similar campaign against Japan prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

After England declared war on Germany, owing to the latter’s invasion of Poland, the American people were overwhelmingly opposed to entry into the war. That was because they recognized that U.S. interventionism into World War I, which cost the lives and limbs of tens of thousands of American soldiers and severely infringed on the liberty of the American people, had accomplished nothing.

Americans had no interest in doing it again. Their mindsets were similar to those of our American ancestors, whose founding foreign policy was to avoid involvement in Europe’s forever wars.

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WNU Editor: There were many other reasons why Japan declared war against the U.S., sanctions was one of them. But Iran is not what Japan was before Pearl Harbour.

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