Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:58:42 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
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[...]

War has a heavy price in blood and treasure and Trump - quite rightly
- wishes to avoid such expendiiture if it can possibly be avoided. A
novel standpoint for a US president, I grant you,

>
Not exactly novel, America didn't get involved in WWII until December
1941.  Britain had already been fighting for over 2 years by then.

It wasn't popular to send kids to die in yet another european war.
Pearl Harbor did it.

The US was keeping England alive before Pearl, at some considerable
loss in merchant marine ships and lives.  The US was hardly neutral.

Some American volunteers were fighting, too.