Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says

• LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The original question was should the US have entered in 1939. That word implies a moral perspective.

  Should verb

  1. used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness, typically when criticizing someone’s actions.

  I can assure you, since it was my question, that should was used in reference to obligation or duty. So while it can be referencing correctness (morality), it wasn’t.

  The US was isolationist, but should it have been. Should any country be? (Draw your own historical parallels to today).

  Assuming your asking about correctness then that would depend on the person answering’s opinion and when they are answering from. Again, it is easy to say now, with access to all the information post-event but, clearly, in 1939 the reigning belief of the US population seems to have been “no”.

  America shouldn’t be the world police, but it should help resource a world police force. And to be fair, the US did provide a huge amount of non military resources to Europe throughout WWII.

  Here we agree, mostly. America also contributed 407,316 lives of its soldiers and 671,278 injuries to others.

  I myself wonder if American hegemony would exist today if they had entered the war in 1939.

  A large part of both the rise of America as a world power and world police role came about initially because of the war.

  Between a form of legal profiteering in lend/lease, the huge industry boom during and post-war and the fact that Europe faced so much destruction and needed a lot of rebuilding, America’s rise came about. Then, rather quickly after I’d say, the perversion of their role began into what it is today.

  In my opinion, America should have worked to withdraw over time and let their allies take over the “policing” role in their areas of concern, or actually allow NATO to work as intended.

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