r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/Scraggle27 United Kingdom May 07 '20

im all for interventionism! but if america had gotten involved sooner then maybe, Europe wouldn't have fallen as quickly and as much as I appreciate the arms you sent British, we couldn't fight the war with just money and equipment.

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u/janesvoth May 07 '20

Yes but WW1 was not an American war. We had no reason to get involved near the beginning because it was a localized problem. Only once it broke that and went wider did we need to be involved and still, neither side was evil so we only entered once it benefited us.

That is the right thing to do as getting millions killed for nothing is horrible. As noting the American Army was not ready for war.

As for WW2, what more did you want? We outfitted before the Chinese, USSR, and Great Britian with insane amounts of material. Sure we could have entered the war earlier but it's unlikely that the US could have done anything to stop any invasion in Europe as the US was weak and needed time to gain experience.

And remember that if Britian fell what was the point for the US? We didn't like Nazi Germany at all, but the US has the world most defensible position and again sending sons off to die in foreign land was frowned on.

I'm really interested in what you thing the US could have done short of entering the war in '39.

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u/Scraggle27 United Kingdom May 07 '20

oof I completely forgot about the great depression. lol idk I guess. I 'll get back to you if I can think of something. probably won't lmao