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Please explain precisely how the US brought Japan into WWII. That is like blaming the murder victim for making the murderer a criminal.
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It's a common known fact that Stimson wanted war with Japan since the mid 30's and since 1940, FDR adopted a specific strategy to incite Japan to commit an overt act of war. Part of the strategy was to move America’s Pacific fleet out of California and anchor it in Pearl Harbor. Admiral James Richardson, the commander of the Pacific fleet, strongly opposed keeping the ships in harm’s way in Hawaii. He expressed this to Roosevelt, and so the President relieved him of his command. Later Richardson quoted Roosevelt as saying: “Sooner or later the Japanese will commit an overt act against the United States and the nation will be willing to enter the war.”
Pearl Harbor was a surprise to many, not to FDR and Stimson.
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f the russians had made peace on the eastern front the war would have gone on much longer, but it still would have ended the same way. The german war machine was running at maximum capacity already. and their capacity diminished daily while their cities were pounded into rubble from air raids. The US still had plenty of room to grow.
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Knowing 80-90% of the American public being against participation of US soldiers Europe, I very much doubt that the US Congress would allow hundreds of thousands more casualties.