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Date: December 07, 2021 02:37PM
Victor David Hanson is a military historian and classicist with the Hoover Institute, and widely syndicated. In the essay (link, below) he discusses the event from Japan's point of view: what their assumptions about the US and the world stage were, plus their military/imperial goals, their miscalculations, and what was relevant in the European and western Asia/USSR fronts. For example, the Germans were advancing fast on Moscow, and the Japanese expected the USSR to fall, which would change the global calculus immensely.
Also, think in terms of two-front wars:
The US: Europe and the Pacific
The USSR: the western Axis and Siberia/western Pacific
Germany: Western and Russian fronts
United Kingdom: Europe and the Indian Ocean
All of which made it, truly, a World War.
So here it is, history buffs:
https://victorhanson.com/remembering-pearl-harbor/