Re: Had he ran for president, Charles Lindbergh would have been the greatest in American history
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MXM9W
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Date: December 02, 2020 03:10PM
Over his head Wrote:
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> Lindy's isolationism was nothing unique in 1930s
> America, and he came to it later than most people.
> Isolationists helped the Republican Party win
> control of the Senate in 1918 which kept the U.S.
> out of the League of Nations and out or a role in
> helping to maintain peace in post WW1 Europe which
> might have prevented WW2. It was only in the late
> 1930s that FDR began moving the U.S. beyond
> isolationism. Wilkie's win in the 1940 Republican
> convention was a victory of interventionists over
> isolationists. By the time Lindbergh joined the
> America First Committee the influence of
> isolationists was fast waning.
you are half right, which means you are also half wrong
The League of Nations was powerless in the real world, that's why it was replaced. The ONLY saving grace of the racist democrat Wilson was that he did not want to hold Germany financially responsible for WW1 at the treaty of Versailles. But Woodrow got the flu. The treaty proceedings were postponed while he recovered but he wasn't the same man mentally afterwords. Thus the other allies were able to hold Germany responsible setting in motion the events that led to WWII.
Isolationism is also why it took Pear Harbor, and two days later Hitler declaring war on the U.S. to get us involved in WWII. Though we were supplying a great deal of war needs to England and Rusdia through lend lease before that. Japan attacked the British holdings of Hong Kong and Singapore at the same time, and Darwin shortly after. FDR was an isolationist as well, but he was smart enough to see the war in Europe and Japan's expansion in the pacific was going to drag us into the war. That is why we moved our pacific naval base to Hawaii when we did, and he is why we enacted lend lease. We were building up our military prior to dec 7 '41 as war clouds loomed, but at a pace that would've taken 20 years to be ready for war.
and Patton was right about Russia
Canadians went to war before we did because they were still direct sovrens of the crown of England. They had no choice. Same with Australia, New Zeland and India. The British empire, which is the reason the international business world speaks English, didn't break up until after WWII.
Interesting to note, Europe wasn't considered rebuilt from WWII until the early '80s. Even then there were large areas of ruble still behind the iron curtain. Mostly because socialism is a joke. And Great Britain didn't finish paying back the U.S. until 2006.