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Originally Posted by marc780
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From what I understand, America never wanted to join the war against Germany, they always say it as 'Europe's war'
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It was much more complicated thatn that. The isolationit groups, and the German sympathisers had the publicity. And the isolationists had a well developed organization in the America First. Conversely there was a large part of the population that was either pro British, sympatheic to the USSR, anti Facist, or who were concered by their loss of business revenue due to nazi economic policys in occupied Europe. These disparite groups did not and have not since recived the same degree of attention or analysis as the isolationist factions.
The fundamental problem of the isolationit stance was that its beliefs were at odds with economic reality. North America & the US had never been economically independant or self contained since early colonial times. The economic prosperity of the preDepression era folks in the US sought to return to was dependant on robust imports and exports, and on renewed investment from forigen capitol. that was not going to happen while the nazis and Japans imperialists continued to wreck Europes and Asias economys with their incompetence.