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Originally posted by Howard Agency
Pretty easy answer. It's 1938 in Israel, and Israel is like Britain in 1938. Has been that way for the past 50+ years. War may be about to break out.
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That's wildly not true. You're not even on the street to the parking lot of the ballpark on that one.
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We put billions (back when a billion was real money) into the UK at that time to support our 'Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier". There was a good chance that without our support Hitler would have beaten Britain,
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Germany had absolutely no chance to beat Britain. The Royal Navy beat the German Navy silly in short order, Germany didn't have the capability to land on British unimproved shorlines, and the British could have and would have denied any port facilities to them. The Germans weren't even close.
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and without Britain, there was a good chance we could not have invaded Europe until much later.
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Since there was no reason, at all, for America to enter the european portion of World War II, I'll have to say; so what!
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If the big one does break out, we need a base in the ME. Anyone else there you want to count on?
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"The Big One" is a figment of your imagination. We have no reason to be in the middle east at all.