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> None? If the idea is that the US would have been invaded by the Axis seems unlikely, as all of their goals were fairly localized to each of Germany, Italy, and Japan

How was conquering Russia, Europe, and Africa a local goal? How was conquering all of the indo pacific a local goal?

You honestly think Hitler would have been content to keep Europe, Russia, and Africa forever? You don't think he would have wanted to conquer more? Appeasement and naivety didn't work too well for those that used it.

Power vacuums are not imaginary concepts. Regimes will expand to fill them.




But where is the part that Americans were at risk if they didn't enter the war, presumably via some kind of invasion?


We were fighting empires that liked conquering. Is it really that hard to envision the nazis wanting to keep going? After they took Poland they told Russia, we promise we are content. Then they invaded Russia. They took land that wasn't theirs at a frightening pace. Where exactly did you see any evidence of them wanting to stop?




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