Would you want your country defending America?

[Taz!]

mrstickball said:

Taz! said:
It depends on the situation, for example if it seemed apparent that the USA was getting defeated in the conflict then why would smaller countries help when they would just be crushed?

And countries don't owe the USA nothing in this sense, all conflict America has entered in the past has been in its own security/interests. In WW2 the USA didn't do very much, it was the British and to a much larger extent the Soviets who defeated Hitler, and the USA left those countries on their own until she finally got attacked.

The US lost more soldiers than the British did throughout the entirety of World War 2. We lost more soldiers than any other allied country, other than the Soviets and the Chinese. We also committed almost three times as many troops to WW2 than the British did (5.3m to 16.3m).

Also as aruged, the US suppled much material to the allies prior to enterance into the war. I don't have those figures on hand, but we did indeed help.

The US population and military is many times larger than the British - so you are expected to contribute and lose more. If you put those figures into ratio's of how much contribution there was per person etc they wont look that attractive for the US.

There's no doubt the US did help, but it didn't do anything spectacular and far from won WW2. Therefore not much is owed in this context to the US from Europe and absolutely nothing is owed from Russia.