On 2021-03-02 4:54 p.m., Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 3/2/2021 11:26 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2021-03-02 11:08 a.m., Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>> On 3/2/2021 7:55 AM, David Crossley wrote:
>> Â*Â* Janet UK
>>>>>
>>>> Also, don't forget about the time we saved you Limey's
>>>> from the Krauts, back in the big one.
>>>> --
>>>> Regards
>>>> David Crossley
>>>>
>>>
>>> And the time before that.Â* And don't forget the incident with the
>>> Argies.
>>
>> Is that the one where Britain took back the Falklands Islands. They did
>> a good job of winning that one back single handed. I do recall that the
>> US had similar victories fighting single handed against military
>> superpowers like Grenada and Panama.
>>
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> The US may not have had boots on the ground, but they gave a lot of
> assistance.

It wasn't too hard to buy support when there were jobs and money coming
in to sell war materials to the Allies, but it was a different matter
when it came to sending troops and risking American lives, they opted to
let the Europeans slug it out. The British and their Allies went to war
in 1914, The US was finally ready to fight in May 1918. The Allies
already had Germany on the run. The tipped the scales with a massive
influx of men and equipment.

In WWII they had the Lend Lease program that allowed them to provide war
materials to the Allies to be used to protect American interests, but
they did not want to send in troops. The Allies had been at it for more
than two years before Japan attacked and Hitler declared war on the US
that they got involved. The help was appreciated but give credit where
credit is due. Just be happy that the Soviet Union had stupidly made a
deal with Hitler and were betrayed when the Nazis invaded their
Bolshevik Utopia, because it was the Soviet armies that pounded the
German forces on the ground.