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"Fuck Nazis" - the all-uniting cry (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The US was supplying the UK and France from the very start of the war, ending a near-decade long embargo on munitions export, and Lend-Lease began before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

[โ€“] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

You couldn't have said it better. I am getting tired of memes of US being happy enough to profit from either side until they got dragged into WWII by Japan. Even though that is true (private companies with operations on both sides of the Atlantic are the ones who profited more), the US have helped China and the Allies more through lend lease and embargo as you mentioned. It is also important to remember that US ships and German u-boats were already skirmishing for well over a year before WWII, because US ships were supplying UK after France fell.