Some interesting, non warmongering western media efforts, on this site.
http://www.sott.net/
Was sad to see the BBC run with all that hyped up shit on the Turkish - Russian airspace kurfuffle. They used to be good, but I have been living under a bit of a rock lately.
No, it took the waiting for the Japanese to attack and the Germans to declare war on them (which was an added bonus, Hitler didn't have to do that at all when he did) because Roosevelt had promised the US public they wouldn't be fighting a war for anyone else as they (the US public) were very, very anti it. They needed some tragic incident to clear themselves politically and rally the nation before they could enter. That said in the late 30's their armed forces numbers were under 200,000. Rome had a bigger army than that

so they weren't exactly a powerhouse of force until later in the war when the machine cogs started whirring anyway.
The discussions before that attack about trying to break some of the banking control away from the UK after the war was a good move. The UK and Germany essentially controlled the worlds finances and even today there is still a firm grip of control coming from that area.
The shit they pulled after the war in the scramble for German tech and beyond were the beginnings of the main dick head US moves. IMO.
Even though they had been asking for help for a decade or so to avoid, stop, sidestep and then help avoid being annihilated (as things progressed. Russia even joined the league of nations or whatever it was called to try and get some help to de-escalate things well before war came), and got absolutely hammered, it was Russia that turned the tide of WWII and essential 'won' it for the 'allied' forces anyway. Russia was battling more fronts at any one time than the combined total of UK, USA and France etc. Even if they were a few million out, the death numbers reflect that (27m approx. Other allied forces all well under 1m each as a rule). Stalin and team, as big of a fuckwit as he was, did all that minus all the military heads he had executed a few years earlier.
Don't tell Hollywood the US did fuck all though. They'll go broke.
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