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Let's pretend for a minute that America decided to turn it's back on getting involved in Europe, then, and focus soley on Japan.

A) We would have never been able to penetrate the beaches of Normandy and France in order to reattain our foothold in Europe. Hitler would have controlled pretty much everything from Poland to the shores of France, meaning he could sit back and barrage the heck out of Britain - who was his only real form of resistance in Europe to begin with, as Canada, New Zealand, Australia were all serving under Brittish command anyway. This would have let him develop his nuclear program and his jet fighers that he was -this- close to deploying before America dropped a their own nukes on Japan, which would have never happened if they didn't steal the technology from Germany in the first place. London wouldn't exist today otherwise.

B) Russia was just as guilty of being about-faced back then as America. When Hitler first started the war, Russia was on his side. If the US didn't get involved in Europe, Hitler would have had full access to slowly blitzkreig just about every morsel of resistance that the Russians had left to the close of the war. They probably would have surrendered prior to that, though. The Russians didn't get rich until after the war ended, and they pretty much devoured every resource that the Nazis were able to accumulate.

C) America would have inevitably lost against Japan as well, because if the US had not came to reinforce us in Europe, we would have been landlocked on the island of Britain, while Nazi U-Boats pretty much ate and devoured everything come to and from the Atlantic. Meaning every Canadian, or Australian soldier hoping to fight for freedom would have been sent to the bottom of the ocean by Germany's vastly superior navy.

D) When I said "We'd all be speaking German," I meant we would have lost the War. Not that we'd actually be speaking German. I realize there would have been other alternate endings to how we'd be living today.

E) The only reason we never hear anything about anyone else's involvement in the War when it comes from the US, is for the same reason we only learn about Canada and Britain's involvement in WWII from anyone here. They acknowledge that the war started in 1939. But, they also acknowledge that it didn't start for them until 1941. So, who'se wrong here? Nobody. They have their history just as we have ours.

So if all that means I'm buying into American propoganda, for being able to sit here and freely type what I just wrote without fear of being executed or trialed as a traitor or heretic - which I very likely would have, if Facism or Communism (just look at China right now, and how supressed they've become) prevailed over what we have now - then so be it.

That's not going to stop me for being thankful for what the Americans did for us during WWII.