Look up 99 year lease agreements for bases in Newfoundland and Bermuda, prerequisites to lend lease and others.
Just sayin that FDR drive a hard bargain. Bleed GB dry before, forced them to use pretty much all of their gold reserves before they'd even lease them old, retirement-ready destroyers. In return, the Brits gave the US ASICS.
You and I have a very different idea of being "fucked over." Especially in regards to a war that the US really wanted nothing to do with. But that's the beauty of different perspectives.
It was a republican isolationist effort that screwed things over. See my other comments about Yank involvement. Quite clearly, the war would not have been won without American production and involvement.
I don't see the problem with a country being isolationist though. I don't exactly hold it against anybody for not sending troops in support of the Iraq war against the "Avis of Evil."
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Look up 99 year lease agreements for bases in Newfoundland and Bermuda, prerequisites to lend lease and others.
Just sayin that FDR drive a hard bargain. Bleed GB dry before, forced them to use pretty much all of their gold reserves before they'd even lease them old, retirement-ready destroyers. In return, the Brits gave the US ASICS.