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by AnimalMuppet 3485 days ago
Well... the US did stop selling some stuff (steel, rubber, gasoline, and maybe a bit more) to Japan because of what they were doing in China. That was a factor in Japan deciding to go to war with the US.

So I don't know if you count that as "little done to stop them". That was what we could do, short of war, and even that helped precipitate war.