General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Barry Poppins]

The Americans did the same thing during WW1 too tbh

 

[Barry Poppins]

However, once the Americans were in, they were all in.

 

[Chris]

Grim the point is that someone who is in a country in a war who is allies with the US would want us to join earlier lol

 

[Chris]

No one is even saying it's right or wrong, it's just perception from a different area

 

[Barry Poppins]

Grim the point is that someone who is in a country in a war who is allies with the US would want us to join earlier lol

I guess, but in fairness, the US government was still supplying the UK with weapons and supplies, so there is that.

 

[Spitfire]

the working man didnt know that shit lol

 

[Spitfire]

all the war stories i heard

 

[Chris]

Yeah and Japan for awhile and once we stopped they bombed pearl harbor lol

 

[Spitfire]

were not from the militray informed

 

[Hoss]

I do not blame FDR at all in that. He himself *wanted* to go to war, but the thing he needed was time and the American public to be on his side, or else Congress would have never allowed it.

Didn't bother JFK, LBJ or Nixon when it came to Nam

 

[Spitfire]

just the military involved

 

[Spitfire]

lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

US supplied both sides im fairly certain

 

[Barry Poppins]

Yeah and Japan for awhile and once we stopped they bombed pearl harbor lol

So here's the thing I was actually going to mention

 

[Spitfire]

yeah my Great Uncle - used to laugh about three German POWs - with US accents