re: domain-you had best post today listen paddy.
The Americans deliberately provoked the japs into declaring war by cutting off their oil supply. Then the cowardly Pommy officers in Singapore capitulated without a fight, despite outnumbering the japs by 50%.
(and we nearly lost the country, the Indonesians and the Malays were brutalised, the pommy empire was destroyed and the seppos rode to power by staying out as long as they did)
