the whole pearl harbour conspiracy while i can see the attraction just doesnt hold up.

While they well may have been a coverup, thats just typical government to any diasater.

true fdr wanted war and was engaged in some conspiracy to drag the us into war. But the place to look is that atlantic not the pacfic, where the US was being pushed into the battle of the atlantic.

the surprise attack on pearl harbour by carriers, wasnt predictable, air craft carriers hadnt arrived to that moment, given the choice between carriers and battaleships the political leadership and naval leadership wuld have choose battaleships every time. The very exsistance of large carriers was a bizzare side effect of the washington naval treaty of 1922.

The German declartion of war on the US is just bizzare, there was no way for anyone to predict that.