I think you forget that Britain stood alone against the Germans for several years before our so called allies sat on their backsides, decided that they would help us ...
Right, I think you might be forgetting that American Neutrality Act was amended to allow 'cash and carry' purchases by the Allies and introduced the Lend-Lease policy authorizing the provision of materiel and other items.
United States were propping up Britain in every way possible short of declaring war on Germany prior to Pearl Harbour. US even created a security zone spanning roughly half of the Atlantic Ocean where the United States Navy protected British convoys. As a result, Germany and the United States found themselves engaged in sustained naval warfare in the North and Central Atlantic by October 1941, even though the United States remained officially neutral.
The Russians did not come into that war because they had principle but because Hitler attacked them, of course they fought back.
No shit Sherlock.
We went to war because we had a moral duty to do so.
You are so full of shit. Tell that crap to Polish who had a defence pact with Britain and France but were back stabbed by both as soon as Germans attacked.
British and French did absolutely nothing from autumn 1939 until April 1940 when France itself and British EF in France were attacked.
While you are at it you might as well inform Czech of just how principled British conduct was when Chamberlain first sold Sudetenland and than the whole of Czech territory in Czechoslovakia to Nazis.
Oh yeah. There was also this Anschluss thingy where Britain did fuck all too. Wtf I am saying - British government was doing everything possible to appease Hitler. Spineless opportunistic bastards.
Btw Nazi spine was cracked by Russians - Operation Bagration and not by Western Allies and Japanese were defeated by Americans.
People go on about, the reason we went to war in Iraq was because of oil, what's wrong with that being one of the reasons, without oil our civilisation would come to an end, the west would slowly die. So of course we must protect our supply. If at the same time we remove a brutal dictator, what's wrong with that. How many Kurds were saved by the no fly zone.
The Serbs, left to get on with it, would have slaughtered as many Muslims as they could, genocide, so are not British soldiers hero's for stopping it.
I think that our armed services have been a force for good in the last 70 years.
Arthur.
I'd rather not comment. My mind is full of fuck.
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