Originally Posted by Excargodog

Oh, absolutely. And it would have been far easier to just look the other way in WWI and just concentrate on Japan in WWII and let the UK and the USSR fight it out with Nazi Germany and Italy. The US sustained a lot of casualties and civilian rationing that lasted until 1946 ( https://www.nationalww2museum.org/wa...ng-during-wwii) and incurred a lot of debt that we could have avoided had we let the rest of the world just beat itself to death protected by our two big moats to East and west.

Not sure we’d have liked the result though.