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You appear to misunderstand what grand strategy means, anon. Japan's tactics (battlefield decisions) were sound. Japan's braindead stupidity was antagonizing their main trading partner (America didn't give a fuck about China. We got pissed off at them after they sunk an American ship, and even then we only embargoed them after they directly invaded White owned lands.) and then attacking their main trading partner, even though there is no imaginable way that would lead to them getting us to give them oil.
What Japan did wrong is making stupid decisions in their broader strategy. Ironically, they made the same mistake as Germany. Only a retard thinks it is a good idea to declare war on a strong country you are not at war with while you are already invested in another war. Germany should have held off on attacking the USSR until the war in the west ended. Japan should have held off on attacking America forever.
>Inb4 muh Soviets would have attacked first
No. The Soviet forces in the west were a combination of a token border force, and a hefty occupation force to drive their boot into the Poles and Balts. Now that the Soviet Union collapsed, a lot of Soviet information has been declassified too, which is why we know there was no plan to attack Germany, and when Hitler invaded, Stalin was so shocked he had a nervous breakdown.
>inb4 US left the navy at Pearl Harbor as bait
If that's true, then Japan took the bait like retards. They also never had to antagonize the US in the first place.