"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"Stuart Wilkes" wrote in message
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Stuart Wilkes wrote:



Wasn't there an embargo placed on shipments of steel between
the two countries, as well as access to oil?

Not while the Soviet-Japan border war was going. That ran between
1937 - 1939. The US did not freeze Japanese assets and embargo scrap
steel and oil until 1941.

How does this support your implications?

It has nothing to do with them, since the shipments continued
throughout the entire Soviet-Japan border war.

No state of war was ever declared,

A state of war existed. Hence all the tanks going to-and-fro over
various borders.

there were a series of border clashes culminating in the battle of
Khalkin Ghol between May and Sept 1939.

Border clashes... that inflicted more casualties on the IJA than the
British Armed Forces managed at Singapore. Hm.

Stuart Wilkes