I get your point an we could debate that but the whole idea that sent us down this rabbit hole is that you cant supply a war an not be part of that war. If we supply a war we are part of that war an have good odds of being dragged in to the fighting..Just for the record, we didn't do all of those.
Do you think if the Japanese had stopped their aggression that we would have continued with the sanctions ? There would have been no more need to continue.
What if we had ignored what Japan was doing, and not helped England, the Free French, and Russia ? If the Axis powers had defeated England and Russia, who would have been left to help us against the Axis powers when the came for us ?