>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>Where did Kevin write that it was? Whatever the reasons for the U.S. entering the war, does not change the effect it had.
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>From Kevin "The U.S. saved Europe from sheer totalitarian rule".

That doesn't have the same meaning as your interpretation. He wrote about an effect. He never mentioned altruism. You put your meaning to his words which suggests you have a chip on your shoulder.