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The United States has always entered wars by protecting its national interests, whether that be another country attacking us or a threat to our nation. Idealistically the United States may be against an immoral practice another country is doing, but will not start a war unless somehow the United States is threatened or attacked. Our country might give aid to the suffering country or put sanctions against the opposing country that is causing the problems. Only by looking at our nations wars in the past, for example the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II we can see our nation will only go to war if our nation is attacked or there is a serious threat to our nation affecting our people or economic situations. Take for instance World War II. In the 1930’s Japan was trying to gain an empire in Asia by attacking areas such as Manchuria, French Indochina and many parts of Northern China. The Japanese militarists slaughtered about 5,890,000 Chinese during this time in World War II. They were unrighteous by going area-to-area raping thousands of women and children. At that time, the United States did not want to enter a war with Japan. Instead of entering a war with Japan pre WWII, the United States put oil sanctions