• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The fucking arrogance. The US sat on its hands for years while western Europe fought for its survival. The US entered the war more than two years after Canada fully committed to the war effort.

    • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nl
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      5 hours ago

      Well, it’s not like the US had any kind of alliance with any European state at that point. And Europe pretty much was just ‘Far-away-istan’ (as we say in Dutch) for Americans.