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[–] givesomefucks 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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Yes, there were plans for if we joined before we joined.

Like, that's what a functional government does, plan things in case they happen.

Only planning for things you know will happen is absolute insanity.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate

While it did cross into the majority of Americans (68%) thinking we should join the Allies, it was due to the belief Germany wouldn't stop with Europe.

Interventionists believed the United States did have good reasons to get involved in World War II, particularly in Europe. The democracies of Western Europe, they argued, were a critical line of defense against Hitler’s fast-growing strength. If no European power remained as a check against Nazi Germany, the United States could become isolated in a world where the seas and a significant amount of territory and resources were controlled by a single powerful dictator. It would be, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it, like “living at the point of a gun,” and the buffer provided by the Pacific and Atlantic would be useless.

Pearl Harbor settled the debate on if America would be left alone.

It wasn't for "various reasons".

[–] aidan 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

... Yes for average Americans, yes. Again, I'm talking about FDR and other political leaders

[–] givesomefucks 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't expect you to read the link, that's why I quoted part of it...

But I at least hoped you'd read that

If you refuse to read, there's no point in trying to help you understand anything.

[–] aidan 2 points 3 months ago

The quoted portion, from my perspective added nothing, but I might of misinterpreted it, so please explain

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