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Originally Posted by Vanilla
But I suppose that was based on governments of the Allied countries making decisions about when to become involved. In New Zealand everything about the war was dumbed down, so we didn't really no anything that was going on. Basically the troops got signed up, shiped out when we were told to.
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i'm just saying you're making awfully egregious generalizations about the start of the war. there's no way to know how the war would have turned out if America had gotten involved earlier. and i might remind you that America
was an isolationist country, had been during the Great War as well.
i think history is a pretty stupid thing to argue about anyways. i probably should be doing something more productive.
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Originally Posted by right-track
You're forgetting that the European allies secured a peace treaty with Germany before the invasion of Poland. Hardly not giving a shit.
A deal that also guaranteed British involvement against Germany should they invade. Also, hardly not giving a shit.
Also, after Europe fell to the Nazi's the British could have sued for peace.
We chose to stand alone and continued to fight...alone.
I'm not disputing what happened in the far east Sam. I'm fully aware of what took place.
I was trying to bring attention to the Soviet contribution to the war. Which in my opinion is sadly overlooked by some countries.
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of course not. i'm just playing devil's advocate.