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Originally Posted by Spiderman
Oil, money, power, militarty occupations of other countries. Its waht America has always aspired to being... in charge of the rest of the world.
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It's not fashionable to say so in Blair's Britain, but I so agree with you!
Any second year student of history will know that when the USA went into Grand Isolationism in the period 1920 to 1939, it was carefully designed to take their trade away and thus weaken it's enemies. Then, by carefully selecting the right time to join in World War Two, they got the Russians to expend most of their manpower in beating the Germans. Sure, it cost them a few ships and tanks, and a few kids from Kansas, but not that much.
If the Brits hadn't been so stupid as to let Churchill mortgage most of their lands and wealth to get food, oil and munitions from the Yanks - which will only be paid off this year - they could have allied first with Germany, or perhaps with Russia and then there would have been a united Europe ruling most of the world in a far more benign way. Of course, with the Germans or Russians, there would have been a few casualties - like Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, sick people, intellectuals - but that would have happened anyway. And we certainly don't know the truth of the American concentration camps.