• robinn2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    In any event, the US didn’t need an excuse to join the war. Germany was giving us plenty already.

    When the US declared war on Japan in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor, it did not declare war on Germany; Germany declared war on the US three days after the US declared war on Japan. The U.S. was the ideological predecessor to Nazism [1] [2], and only joined the war when they were threatened.