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Originally Posted by fleetwood77
Absolutely !
But wasn't FDR doing his best to get the US involved long before Pearl Harbour [ hence Lend Lease et al] - and was restrained only by the Isolationists at home.
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What better way of capitalizing on the profits to be made from war than by making everyone's weapons while safely sitting it out. The United States got dragged into WW II not only because Japan attacked, but Hitler was stupid enough to declare war on the US after the fact otherwise we probably would have just focused on curb-stomping the Japanese.
In other words I believe FDRs conscience led him to support the allies, but I do not think he was actively trying to get the US into a major war. The only thing that could have induced the US into war as overwhelmingly as it did was something like the Pearl Harbor attack which- conspiracy theorists aside-the US did not anticipate as the response of a sober nation state nor was it an attack manufactured by the FRD administration. (After all...why sacrifice the one tool you would need to prosecute a war in the pacific in order to have just cause for declaring war in the first place?)