The video asserts that Hitler was interested in invasion because the US was supplying them, although this aid was not nearly what would come with Lend-Lease about six months later, and not that they controlled a massive Empire that was fighting Germany in Africa, Asia, and Southern Europe, and was by far the greatest threat to Germany. I assume they’re speaking about the Blitz, embargo, and Battle of Britain, which did have a singular purpose, to force a peace with the British, and not stop US supply trains, which did not start in earnest until after this. The British maintained control of the seas, and by the time Germany gathered an invasion force, Britain had its own defense force. Operation Sea Lion was kicked around sure, but it was delayed indefinitely as infeasible. Which is why Hitler never fucking tried to invade the island of Britan. Given Germany was outmatched on the sea (by the videos own admission), there was little need or reward for an invasion of the island of Britan, at a tremendous cost. A token force could have been left in France to keep the British from invading it.” “Germany would have little need to invade Britain without the US supplying it. “That the state of war between the United States and the Government of Germany which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared.” (emphasis added.) To quote the resolution in 77th Congress from January 11th of '42 “What if the US had shrugged it’s shoulders when Russia and England had begged it to join the war effort?” The first bit of bullshit comes at 0:56 into the video when the narrator asks: UNPROVABLE CLAIM 1: WWII would have ended in a stalemate without US intervention. So let’s start with the first claim about all that World War 2 nonsense.
So let’s fact check this counterfactual, and see just how wrong this brand of American exceptionalism is.
The problem is that this counterfactual is actually counter factual, ie filled with half truths, technically truths, and outright bullshit.
How can something that didn’t happen be proved that it wouldn’t happen. Of course this is a counterfactual, and as such is virtually impossible to prove wrong. For those who don’t want to subject themselves to what I just did, it’s a video that postulates, without US intervention, World War II would have ended in a stalemate, the EU never would have formed, colonialism would have prospered, Korea would be unified under communism, and Japan would remain an Imperial Power. How are those last two not mutually exclusive is a mystery. Okay so I came across this youtube video: What If: World Without the US, and frankly, it broke my brain.
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