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I don't believe it. We probably did expect them to retaliate somehow, but you don't deliberately get a huge chunk of your naval forces wiped out right before getting into a naval war with a great naval power. You'd think if it was on purpose, or at least by deliberately allowing it to happen, that they'd make it bad enough to go to war over, but not as devastating a coup as it actually was.How much of a conspiracy "Pearl Harbor was a false flag operation" is considered? Because there's no way Americans weren't expecting Japanese to retaliate after the embargo which Americans only bothered to after Japan invaded Southeast Asia which was a French colony at the time.
I do think, much like 9/11, that we had enough information at the time we should have been expecting it, but I don't think we actually did (unless it was some deep state actor who deliberately did it for some reason).
I'm a LOT more suspicious about 9/11 being allowed to happen, although mere incompetence is also at least a plausible explanation (but you would want it to be a plausible explanation if you were pulling off a conspiracy).