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Uncle Obsessed with World War II Somehow Blind to Encroaching International Fascism
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Nah, it's not that liberals WANT any kind of fascism. It's just that they don't really MIND much since they and their owner donors tend to be wealthy and/or powerful enough to weather most of the effects.
Also, if you look at liberals throughout history, particularly Italy a century ago, you'll see that they tend to not resist fascist uprisings that hard and then join them once they come to power.
With the exception of Franco's Spain, every fascist government in the 1920s and -30s and then throughout the cold war had either no resistance or outright support from the Western liberals.
WW2 wasn't the rule for how the West tends to deal with fascists, it was the exception.
So are you just totally ignoring that The Battle of Stalingrad didn't start for 6 months after we entered? July of 1942 is later than Dec. 7, 1941.
We were landing troops in Belfast, Ireland as early as January 26, 1942, so how were we waiting for a battle that hadn't even started yet?
So yeah, you're just ignoring everything we did before D-Day. We had been in the war for over two years by that point, in both theaters, but focusing on Europe. We had been protecting our allies up until Dec. 7 1941. We were in the European theater, with troops on the ground, as of early February 1942.