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The Japanese attacked American territory and who knows where they would have stopped if the war had gone in their favour. If the NAZIs had finished off Britain and the USSR, then don't you think they might have begun to help the Japanese?

Well, you're about 50 hypotheticals ahead of the game in all this. Like I said, it's far from clear the Nazis would have attacked US mainland. You really disagree? (Meaning, you think it's clear they would have?)

Maybe the USA could have just sat by and let the most blatantly genocidal regime in history take over the whole of Europe.

In fact, the USA did. Well, maybe not the whole of Europe, but half of it. Remember Uncle Joe? But the USA fought against the other blatantly genocidal regime to save people who were almost exclusively foreigners. Instead of adopting the attitude of "too late", "about time", "the USA should have done it anyway", perhaps you ought to do some thinking until you realize that this is actually pretty remarkable.

Also why should Britain have helped America fight the Japanese, after all, we could have just scampered off back to Europe, our home country is in Europe you know.

Good point. Britain deserves credit.

You were good allies [although] you stayed out of the war until the NAZI allied Japanese attacked you.

As is to be expected. (Why should a country join a war in which they're not involved?)

Then I won't stop saying that without Britain, Americans would be speaking German, or perhaps Japanese.

You are free to say all the untrue things you wish. It's a free country, after all. Best,

...it's far from clear the Nazis would have attacked US mainland. You really disagree? (Meaning, you think it's clear they would have?)

I think that together with the Japanese, and with Britain and the USSR out of the war, there would have been a good chance that the mainland USA would have been a target. After all, this is Adolf Hitler we are talking about. He actually wrote down the dates by which he intended to conquer the European countries. The man had a similar attitude to Alexander the Great when it came to conquering other countries.

As is to be expected. (Why should a country join a war in which they're not involved?)

Good point. Britain only declared war on Germany because they invaded Poland. Britain could have signed a pact with Hitler, which he would probably have honoured since he respected the British people and the British Empire. But Britain had some moral fibre.