Hitler tried to keep us out of the war. Raeder and Doenitz repeatedly tried to get permission to fire on American ships. They both knew that we had a hand in sinking the Bismarck and that we were escorting UK bound convoys almost to Iceland. Hitler ignored them. FDR had hoped a German action would be causus belli but that never happened. In Korea the presence of Soviet piloted MIG 15s did not cause us to go after the USSR.Our problem here is on our side we have a
dementia handicapped puppet POTUS with a totally amateur, unskilled, and ideologically driven staff. On the other side there is an insane leader with no outside limits placed on him. Even at his worst Stalin had to consider the Politburo.
The US was always going to fight Nazi Germany
Maybe I missed something... What did we do to effect the demise of the Bismarck?
“Hitler tried to keep us out of the war. Raeder and Doenitz repeatedly tried to get permission to fire on American ships. They both knew that we had a hand in sinking the Bismarck and that we were escorting UK bound convoys almost to Iceland. Hitler ignored them.”
Tell that to the US Merchant Marine.
From the US Merchant Marine history:
“The Germans and Japanese sank six ships manned by the US Merchant Marine in 1941 before Pearl Harbor, making mariners some of the first American casualties of the growing global conflict.”