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Anthropogenic Correct.

(Sorry: couldn't help myself :))

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How American of you LOL.

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I used to often get comments about how the Americans sent over lots of rifles to help the UK during WW2 and didn't get them back. I looked this up and found out that the British government bought them from the US, and actually finished off paying for them in 2004 due to the long loan terms. So after that I told them that if they wanted them back they'd have to buy them back. I guess this got around since I haven't been asked about it since!

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90% discount, interest free, over 65 years is pretty much the same as a gift, isn't it?

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I'd be more sympathetic if they hadn't been three years late to the party.

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Strange how, looking back to WW2, most people blame the USA for not being the world's police force and being reticent to join the war. How times change. :sneaky:

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Didn't want them to be the world's police force. Wanted them to help save large swathes of the world from immediate fascism and death.

The military operations the US now engages in are very different, from the most part, and often tend to be connected both to supporting right-wing regimes and to the location of petroleum products. Not quite the same thing.

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Of course it's not.

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Well, that clears that up then.

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They weren't three years late and it wasn't a party. The world was a very different place back then and the US was becoming quite isolationist with no thirst for another overseas war like WWI. In any case if Japan hadn't attacked they would have probably stayed out and it is unlikely that the UK would have mounted an invasion on it's own. That would have meant allowing Hitler free reign in the East and he may well have defeated Russia leaving the UK open to attack at leisure. As it is without the intervention of the US the war would have dragged on much longer. As the Japanese admiral commanding the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor is reputed to have said: "We have awoken a slumbering giant" (actually there is no evidence that he really said that but it's a great line).

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How late were they then?

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Two

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That's right. Thanks.

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Maybe their invitation got lost in the post. It happens to me all the time. :cry_smile: