[bobman0330]

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Thus, American destroyers, as for instance the Greer, the Kearney and the Reuben James, have opened fire on German sub-marines according to plan. The Secretary of the American Navy, Mr. Knox, himself confirmed that-American destroyers attacked German submarines.

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I would give Nazi propaganda a little less credit. According to wikipedia, both the Greer and the Reuben James were attacked by German U-boats, not the other way around.

Your argument that Roosevelt provoked either war is quite weak. The embargo against Japan was a response to Japan's entry into the Axis. Continuing to send them oil to power their fleet to threaten British and US holdings in the Pacific would have been bizarre.

The situation in Europe is a bit more grey, but as a matter of historical fact, I think it's well-established that Roosevelt's actions did not provoke Germany's declaration of war. It was a response to the US declaration against Japan. Whether Germany would have declared war, or would have induced the US to declare, is an interesting question, but I don't really see grounds here to infer that Roosevelt would have launched an insane war against the USSR. (His wussiness at Yalta strongly suggests he was trying to avoid said war.)