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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Think about that very carefully Jimbo....The Yanks have pulled us out of the mire more than once.
Without their intervention in WWII we would all be paying homage to a fate worse than the current Labour Government.

In both world wars, Royboy39, the Yanks were intent on staying neutral and did so until there was direct action against the USA that brought them into both wars on the side of the Allies.

In the First World War it was the sinking of the Lusitania that drew American sympathies to the Allies. Thereafter the sinking of several US cargo vessels by U-Boats dragged the US into the war.

It was a similar story for WWII. Except here it was Pearl Harbour that brought the Yanks into the war. Prior to that even the sinking of American cargo vessels by U-Boats wouldn’t persuade them to join us. But they did sell us on the “Lease Lend Scheme” crappy and obsolete warships and arms for the land forces. The USA made a fortune out of WWII and it took us decades of hard earned taxes to pay it off.

Once Hitler realised the enormity of invading England he abandoned the idea and would have, if asked, allowed us to sue for peace. He even broached the idea through diplomatic channels but Churchill refused.

Hitler didn’t see the UK as a historic enemy of Germany and only attacked these islands because we declared war on Germany. Not the other way round. He only reciprocated. Hitler was more intent on dominating the European continent and putting Russia in its place. Don’t forget that the last successful invasion of these shores was back in 1066 when the Duke of Normandy showed Harold what’s what. Normandy is France and we have a long history of battling the French.

Post WWII it was a generally held view that it was the USSR that was a threat to world peace. But the reality was and still is that it is the USA who is the biggest threat to world peace.

Since Heath this government has been sitting on two fences, the European one and the USA one.

It would be in the people’s best interests to become part of the USA but it is in the politician’s best interests to join with Europe. Guess which way the government will eventually fall?