I still say the world would have been a much better place, had Britain, and consequently the US, had stayed out of the fight.
[I still say the world would have been a much better place, had Britain, and consequently the US, had stayed out of the fight.]
If Britain and the US had stayed out, we’d both be speaking German today. The real mistake was FDR’s hankering for decolonization. If we had helped the British, Dutch and French keep their empires, while not batting an eyelash at the atrocities necessary, instead of dropping land mines in their way, the world would be a better place today, and we wouldn’t stand alone facing both Russia and China. Heck, we might even have been able to fully demobilize to a pre-WWII military once they recovered from WWII. By forcing them to downsize their empires, we made Pax Americana necessary.