The US only joined the allies because of Japan’s war declaration. They were mostly happy making bank with both sides before that.
The communications systems in german tanks were working with Graham Bell technology. Their electronics were big on american parts too. Part of the oil that fueled the invasion of Poland and France was from the US. A big part of US’ elites were pro-Hitler (for them the guy was a godsend against communism). The safest places to hide during the American bombings in Germany were the IBM factories.
I think there was some consideration towards joining or at least aligning with the central powers during WW1 but there was basically no interest with joining the Axis in WW2.
USA under Franklin Roosevelt was probably the only time the country was firmly at the highest peak of moral ground.
As for the rhetorical questions, you make it sound as though US fascists were in power to effect influence and policy change. They have been loud but never been influential enough. FDR have made sure of that.
And as for the nuclear bombs, what could have been the other option? Potential 500k-1 million American deaths on invading Japan? And let’s not even think about how many more Japanese civilians could have died since they were brainwashed to fight to the death.
Didn’t the US consider joining the axis but only joined the allies because they stood to make bank helping rebuild Europe?
And wasn’t the only Nazi rally outside of Germany held in the US, in Madison Square Garden?
And didn’t the US turn two cities in Japan into glass and ash?
I don’t believe we legitimately considered joining the axis, as a nation.
We did however have awful “leaders” with fascist ideologies … and they never went away.
They turned way more cities than that into ash.
The US only joined the allies because of Japan’s war declaration. They were mostly happy making bank with both sides before that.
The communications systems in german tanks were working with Graham Bell technology. Their electronics were big on american parts too. Part of the oil that fueled the invasion of Poland and France was from the US. A big part of US’ elites were pro-Hitler (for them the guy was a godsend against communism). The safest places to hide during the American bombings in Germany were the IBM factories.
I think there was some consideration towards joining or at least aligning with the central powers during WW1 but there was basically no interest with joining the Axis in WW2.
USA under Franklin Roosevelt was probably the only time the country was firmly at the highest peak of moral ground.
As for the rhetorical questions, you make it sound as though US fascists were in power to effect influence and policy change. They have been loud but never been influential enough. FDR have made sure of that.
And as for the nuclear bombs, what could have been the other option? Potential 500k-1 million American deaths on invading Japan? And let’s not even think about how many more Japanese civilians could have died since they were brainwashed to fight to the death.