>>>I'm not 'Making it look' like anything. I never said the US acted alone. I simply pointed
>>>out the
fact that the US could have opted to not join the war in Europe,
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>>No, the US could not have realistically opted for this.
>
>What people forget is that the US refused to get involved into WWII and if it was not for pearl harbor and the threats that hitler expressed towards the US, they probably never would have stepped in.
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>It was very lucrative to sell goods to esspecially brittain, but I assume any other country.
>But that definately changed with both the japanese and hitler declaring war to the americans.
That's not quite correct. Britain and Russia were broke. It was in our economic best interests of course to protect investments there, but we could have profited much more from dealing with the Germans. ( ask the Swiss )
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