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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by subchaser12
If the US didn't enter World War 2 the Russians would be marching around Paris right now. The US didn't jump in full tilt until it was clear Germany was going to lose. There is no way America would have entered World War 2 had Moscow fallen to the Germans. The US only entered World War 2 to keep Russia from owning all of Europe. Hitler didn't take the advice "never start a land war in Asia".
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Where did you learn your history? We didn't choose to enter WW2. Both Germany and Japan separately declared war on us first, forcing us, in both cases, to declare war against them in return. |
Erm...The US was supporting Britain big time aside land lease, to a degree they even joined convoy duty attacking german subs in the process long before any war decleration. Not that I can't sympahizse with this descision, but technically the US was far away from a "neutral" country that got a war decleration just so out of the blue. Hollywood does not really live up to this, just in case that is your source of information.
But, back to topic. To all the propaganda nonsense thrown around here, Goering hat a little bit to say to that.
“Naturally the common people don’t want war. But after all, it is the
leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it’s always a
simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every
country.”
--- Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich Marshall, at the Nuremberg
Trials after World War II.