Alternate history: Would the US have ever allowed a rival to develop due to WW2?

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Would the US have sat out WW2 and allowed a single country to grow into a legitimate rival?

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Even without Japan attacking Pearl Harbor, we were already on a trajectory toward war with Germany. They had already suck one American destroyer, the USS Reuben James in October, 1941. And there had been a handful of other incidents where fire was exchanged between American and German vessels.

After the war, while in American custody, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring was asked during his interrogation why Germany declared war on the US. He said that from the German perspective, war with the US had already begun.

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Even without Japan attacking Pearl Harbor, we were already on a trajectory toward war with Germany. They

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Japan though fueled the industry that we call the MIC.

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Would the US have sat out WW2 and allowed a single country to grow into a legitimate rival?

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Think in terms of the 4 spheres of oil

Russian oil goes to Russia, if Germany conquers Russia they get that oil
Americans (North + Central + South) oil goes to Americas
Middle East oil goes to Europe
South China Sea oil goes to Asia

The problem is not "if" we go to war, the problem is we were pacifist and neutral (Not our war, it is Europe war) and waited 3 to 5 years before jumping in.

The 1920's were key in looking at things before they got out of hand

Russia = Stalin replaces Lenin in the mid 20's
Germany = Hitler sentenced to prison in mid 20's

By the end of that decade, both Stalin and Hitler have taken control of their respective countries

Russia in the 30's would exterminate 8 million Catholics & Jews in the Ukraine
Germany in the 30's would transform from a democracy to a dictatorship

Not like all this was unfolding and nobody knew, we just ignored it because we felt it did not affect us.

The "BELLS SHOULD BE RINGING" moment in the mid 1930's was the Spanish Civil War - were the Germany army could test its weaponry and battle plans for their next step. Had we all been more concerned about the globe, this is where we stop Hitler

The tea leaves were out there at this time with the Italians attacking Africa and Japan attacking China

From there it is just the Dominoes falling till we wake up

1938 Germany annexes Austria, we do nothing
1938 Germany annexes Czechoslovakia, we do nothing
1939 Germany creates the puppet state of Slovakia, we do nothing
1939 Germany occupies Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Lithuania, etc, we still do nothing

1939, late in the year, Germany invades Poland and finally Europe wakes up

1941, December, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and finally America wakes up

We sat out for roughly 2 DECADES, and look what it cost the world

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Russian oil goes to Russia, if Germany conquers Russia they get that oil

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The irony of this is, before invading the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Soviets were supplying Germany roughly 10% of its oil; the other 90% coming from Romania, which was a close ally of Germany.

So, Germany had a quite secure supply of oil even before launching Barbarossa in 1941. It would not be until 1944, when Romanian oil shipments to Germany began to decline sharply as a result of the sustained Allied bombing campaign targeting the Ploie?ti oil fields finally paid dividends, that Germany would find itself in short supply.

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Japan though fueled the industry that we call the MIC.

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Yeah, sure. Explain to us how the emperor was a part of their military, industrial, and congressional congress? Yamamoto?

It's interesting how simplistic your view of how other countries operate is seemingly based entirely on how the US government does. Your mind would be blown at a Parliamentary system, I'm sure.

I’m talking about the war with Japan.

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Know history. Be less of a TDS Parrot.

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TDS affects the Far Left and the Far Right with equal severity

As an actual American patriot whose old man and all his uncles served in WWW II instead of dodging it with bone spurs, here is a primer.

#1 If you divide the USA instead of uniting it, you are not a patriot
#2 If you honor an image over those who's blood created honor, you are not a patriot
#3 If you put fear over faith in America, you are not a patriot
#4 If you blame the other side over accepting responsibility for what you do, you are a not a patriot

If you were not alive then or grew up in the immediate aftermath, get in your goonie goo goo go mobile and return forthwith to the China or Russian troll farm you came from and leave America to those actual blood, sweat, and tears patriots who actually had skin in the game.