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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (161241)	4/29/2005 5:54:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Tim, I didn't realize it was an embargo of Japan, which is as you say a completely different thing from a blockade. Are you sure? Yes I'm sure. It wasn't even a total embargo. I think it was steel and oil and probably weapons. We eventually did blockade them during the war, but not at the beginning their navy was too powerful at the beginning, in many ways more powerful than the US Navy at the time. That British Empire colonization was just a flanking manoeuvre in retaliation for Genghis Khan's invasion of Europe some time before The Mongol conquests where ancient history by than and the Mongol Khans never fought the British. The British had their empire for various reasons, desire for power, desire for access to trade and to harvest raw materials, rivalry with other European powers, even to an extent a desire to help people in third world countries, it may have been patronizing but the desire did exist. Japan was trying to prevent the British Empire from surrounding them. By WWII the British Empire wasn't really an expanding force. The USA is happily building a large-scale co-prosperity sphere No it isn't. "Co-prosperity sphere" was another term for empire. The US is not engaged in imperial conquest. Tim