>>>>>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".
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>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.

Yes like most people I have a chip of sorts. :-)

Can we have our gold and naval bases back now ?