Ummm, there was this little issue of Germany declaring war on us... I know our anti-sub patrols were, perhaps, a bit provocative, but they didn’t declare war on us until the Japs attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
Once they did that, it was on.
Have to agree with you on the last part. The EU ended up mostly “Juden-rein” and is largely dominated by Germany. Dunno that Reich would have tolerated the Muzzies, though.
We were in the war by arming England against Germany and China against Japan.
In WWI England blockaded Germany against trade with the US (prior to our involvement), and we did nothing. I live within s few miles of 2 sites that were bombed by saboteurs in WWI (in Lyndhurst & Jersey City, NJ); this was a reaction of German sympathizers here who realized that the weapons made here were killing Germans in a war in which we were officially neutral.
WWII was no different; as a “neutral” we were shipping the weapons to kill Germans to England while officially remaining neutral.