>The US also chose to fight the Nazis because they realised that a Nazi victory in Europe would leave them dangerously isolated. Intelligent foresight to fight a devastating war in someone elses country rather than a few years later in your own.
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>I acknkowledge that we arguably should have gotten involved earlier than we did - but you Brits still benefited from our actions.

I'm not denying that. I'm saying that US entry into World War 2 was not based on altruism. Interestingly there's been a few opinon pieces in the press here recently about World War 2 saying it was a disaster for the UK and we should have stayed out of it.