So it was FDR's fault that WWII started.

[raccoon]

Silly me, all these years I was thinking it was Adolf’s fault.

[Lancero]

1. Yeah. Pity so many European nations refused to act when Germany started pushing things.

We need to hit Russia where it hurts, sanction their top exports. We refuse to act now, history shows us what will happen.

Peace in our time describes the failings that lead to WWII. I wonder, how will the history books describe our failings now? Gas for our cars?

[Hekate]

2. After reading the DSA statement I figure they don't live on the same planet as the rest of us...

“DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict”

[betsuni]

5. +1

[dflprincess]

3. I missed something,

Who said it was FDR's fault? And am I wrong to think it was Bobert or some other idiot Republican?

[raccoon]

4. No, maybe I shouldn't give them any ideas. I'm saying that would

Be like what some MAGAts are saying— that it’s because Biden and not TFG is President that Pooty Poot invaded Ukraine.

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. There was a very old conspiracy theory

that "FDR knew that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor, and kept quiet about it because he wanted to get America into the war" or some such rot. AS IF he would want to give up much of our navy at the outset of war.