Comments by "" (@watching99134) on "Why Hitler declared War on the USA" video.

  1. There was support (the "Bund") but I wouldn't say it was widespread (popular in the mid-West for multiple reasons but a minority voice elsewhere iirc. [Just because people were isolationist doesn't mean they supported the Axis]).
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  2. Sorry but your comment makes a central assumption too, that decisions are either rational/intelligent or simply based on gut feel and impulse. I would say that all big decisions are a combination of the two; it is a false either-or in other words.
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  3. What is your point? One anecdote does not override larger factors (speaking of that part of the world, did the U.S. go to war with Israel in 1967 over the USS Liberty?)
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  4. The U.S. (English-speaking countries in general in my opinion) have a cultural predilection for always trying to let the other guy fire the first shot in order to look like they were merely forced into fighting (references to Lusitania/Zimmermann Telegramm, resupplying Fort Sumter, fake news at Tonkin Gulf, fake news when Maine blew up in Cuba, WMDs in Iraq, Brits using excuse of Belgian and then Polish neutrality, etc. [Hitler emulated at Gleiwitz of course].)
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  5. And once again we have the circular explanation that explains precisely nothing (what a coincidence, in a conversation about Hitler).
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  6. Not so sure about that, Japan didn't have the capability of opening two major fronts and if they attacked the U.S. it meant they wouldn't be able to attack the Soviets (with whom they had a peace treaty).
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  7.  Tungsten_Walls  lol why the second part
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  8. Yes although I think defeating the Soviets was to be more or less simultaneous with winning the Battle of the Atlantic (which would deprive the U.S. of a base from which to project its strength into Europe if it chose to fight Germany more or less alone).
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  9. Of course this presumes that FDR was not trying to end peace rather than preserve it as a way of keeping the American economy from sliding back into recession (war is great for businesses).
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  10. Then why was Hitler was so dejected (supposedly) when the U.S. repeated the Neutrality Act? If he was "high on success" he wouldn't have cared.
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  11. In that case he might not be the only one...
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  12.  Tungsten_Walls  But where was it in this case
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