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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
FDR knew darn well the war was coming and played up to the isolationists anyway.
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Where's your proof?
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What on earth does Spain have to do with the US supplying GB?
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Not much. It does, however, point out the rather problematic nature of declaring war on a country for supporting one's enemy.
Also, there's the unanswerable question of whether, absent Pearl Harbor, Germany would have ever declared war on us. Japan's attack on the US, accompanied as it was by a formal declaration of war, required their Axis partners to sign on.
Would Germany have eventually declared war on us without it essentially being forced upon them by Japan? We'll never know. I tend to doubt it since Germany already had its hands full with Britain and (especially) the Soviet Union. Inviting US to the party would have been, as it proved to be, suicidal.
John