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b) Telling Chancellor Hitler in no uncertain terms that America's overarching military goal would be the complete annihilation of The German Nation if he set one foot on Polish soil?

And you think that would have prevented Hitler from sending his million soilders into Poland ?

[.cnI redruM]

No, but it would have resulted in a European War between US, France, GB on one-side and Germany and maybe Italy on the other.

Stalin would have dropped the Hitler-Stalin Pact like a hot potatoe and Japan would not have seen the immediate need to attack the US Pacific Fleet with the US engaged elsewhere.

In otherwords, by taking advice similar to that offered by u-89's post and staying out of WWII until we were attacked, the US lost maybe hundreds of thousands of livesmore than we would have if we had stuffed Hitler with the same alacrity that we displayed in stuffing Hussein.