One idiot poster there, a prime example of a liberal education:
“But let us not forget, America’s war effort was based on being being a shop front - a profiteering shop front at that. We bought from them until we were bankrupt, then they let us buy on credit in exchange for every single piece of technology we had - including radar and computers. We have since paid back every penny with interest, unlike certain other nations I could mention. It’s why American history is so new, before the profits from the war, there was little there but agriculture. It’s always been my understanding that America never did announce war on Germany, they declared war on Japan, a campaign that saw us go with them hand in hand.”
Surprisingly (they usually don’t) the Mail printed my reply:
Trudi: Hoe many suns does your planet have? Either that, or you are a product of liberal schooling. Maybe both. Just a few examples:
“a profiteering shop front at that.” - also over 400,000 dead (Wikipedia)
“America never did announce war on Germany,” Good God Girl, we didn’t have to. Germany and Italy declared war on US on 12/11/41.
“they declared war on Japan, a campaign that saw us go with them hand in hand.” GGG redux. Didn’t you learn about Japan attacking Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong on 12/7/41? What choice did the UK have, other than to fight back?
Churchill was trying to maneuver Roosevelt into declaring war on Japan if they attacked the UK but not the US. Japanese hubris saved him the trouble.
Bfl