America emerged as a superpower along with the USSR after WW2. Japan dragged America into the war after Pearl Harbor.
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MetalMachine@feddit.nl 1 week ago
They US didn’t fight the Germans because nazis are bad and they wanted to save the jews. They fought the Germans because they didn’t want it to become a superpower that rivaled them.
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Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Wrong, the Americans desperately wanted war with Japan.
The oil embargo was practically a declaration of war.
They deliberately moved their fleet to indefensible Pearl Harbor in the middle of nowhere as a juicy target.
America was already a superpower at that time. And it cost the Soviets the role as possible superpower since they almost singlehandedly beat the Germans at great cost. All in all a great tactical play by the US, if not cold and cynical.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
America was not really a superpower at the time, they fought Germany because their ally (Japan) attacked.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 days ago
More accurately they let the Soviets fight Germany and stepped in at the end to reap the rewards and stop the Russians from going all the way to the Atlantic.