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Originally Posted by Daniel_
Q: How do you get America to join a war?
A: Tell them it's nearly over.
I love the fact that many Americans have such a litle grasp of their own history that they make fun of how the French are "cheese eating surrender monkeys" without considering that had it not been for French soldiers, French generals, and the French Navy, the Thirteen Colonies would not have been able to throw off the government from London that so upset them.
America as a nation owes its entire present existence to one of the few French victories overseas since the seventeenth century.
Something else that makes me horrible - I'm a pedant.
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You're right, the war in western europe was nearly over, and not in favor of the Allies. The French COULD have thrown back the initial german invasion, if not for incompetent generalship. The french had better tanks, and more of them, than the germans. The british could not have won without American intervention. Fact of life. The russians were absorbing enormous casualties, but without American help, Hitler would have had North Africa and the Baltic states, thus eliminating Britians access to oil. God knows they lost malaysia, another major oil producing area.
I'll never claim to know much about my own nation's revolution, but I know a fair bit about world war II. Britian nearly lost the war, and France DID lose the war, until the Canadians, Britons, and Americans won it for them, with some very limited Polish and Free French help.
Take a load off Daniel: you're not nearly as much of a pedant as you think you are, at least not a successful one.