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The rationale at the time was pretty solid. The U.S. was about to declare war regardless, so Hitler pre-empted it and was able to unleash the U-Boats to decisive effect.

Well, if the U.S. goes through with an oil embargo on Japan as a result of a Japanese attack on the Soviets, the Japanese reaction might be to go South anyway if they overreact instead of compensate with the Northern Karafuto oil fields. As for the U.S. there was numerous incidents in 1941 which...

In Europe, probably not, in the Pacific it depends on Japan's reactions.

Nazi-American Cold War, Japan as the China analogue.

Since I can't supply McMeekin's book directly, I thought I would at least share this article he penned in the Wall Street Journal last year titled The Other Day of Infamy in 1941: There was nothing inevitable about the world-altering neutrality pact. Matsuoka, who had long opposed Soviet...

That relations were bad as a result of the China War is not in question, but what is in question is if that made war with Japan inevitable and what role the Soviets played in forcing that about. It's worth noting that their had been war scares stretching back to the 1890s between Japan and the...

And the U.S. doing all of that via inducement by Soviet puppets, ironically: Historians have long discussed whether foreign espionage was responsible for Japan’s military attack on Pearl Harbor. But new research has connected major pieces of that Soviet activity within the United States in much...