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RE: why do you think the USA entered WW2? nt

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jamesgarvin

In Reply to: RE: why do you think the USA entered WW2? nt posted by dave c on June 25, 2007 at 13:35:52

The major difference is that the U.S. did not enter into a contract with Japan whereby the U.S. tells Japan "take what you want, kill as many as you want, just do not attack us." Stalin does a deal with the devil, and then should be rewarded when the devil bit his ass?

But I suggest that the price for the Soviets entering WWII should not be the liberty of millions of people, and the consensus here seems to be that those costs are justified. I'd appreciate a response to that query. Certainly, the U.S. did not install puppet governments in France and Italy, and then restrict those people liberties. In Japan, the U.S. only removed the emperor, but the process itself was largely left untouched.

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some thoughts - dave c 15:04:36 06/26/07 (0)
I think the USA was very happy for Stalin to put various east European countries under his control.
It gave an easy enemy to keep the USA's military budgets blooming. It moved the USA out, way out, of the depression.
As for installing puppet governments, you are right. The USA only picked up on that tactic after WW2.
The reasons for Stalin's deal with Hitler are various, but do you also include Britain among the condemned for dealing with Hitler?
Before WW@ started, everybody knew what Hitler was already doing to the Jews. But who cared enough to do anything?
And why would the USA not be interested in entering WW2 in order to protect those European democracies, stop the massacres of the Jews/socialists/gays across the countries that Germany invaded?
I think the USA grew up a lot in the ways to run an empire during this period.
Even though they became top nation earlier, the domestic economy had been in tatters for a decade and it was only really then that they moved into the deals necessary to become a superpower. (Who came up with that word?).

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