Sunday, September 29, 2019

Trump, FDR, and War

After England declared war on Germany, owing to the latter's invasion of Poland, the American people were overwhelmingly opposed to entry into the war.

In his 1940 campaign for president, Roosevelt told the American people that he was with them in their opposition to foreign wars.

His secret aim was to circumvent the will of the American people and somehow maneuver the United States into the war.

FDR, who is widely recognized as one of the craftiest politicians in U.S. history, began figuring out a way by which he could embroil the nation in the war despite the fierce opposition of the American people.

So FDR embarked on a campaign of helping Great Britain in its war against Germany, such as by providing it with food, oil, and weaponry under the program called "Lend Lease" and also by using U.S. Naval vessels in assist British forces in the Atlantic.

So FDR embarked on a campaign aimed at preventing Japan from securing oil for its war machine in China, a plan that might well be serving as a model for Trump's actions against Iran.

Ironically, Trump's plan to squeeze the Iranian people to death with his embargo in the hope of securing a new nuclear accord with Iran might well end up with the same result - war - as FDR's scheme to squeeze the Japanese with his oil embargo.

https://www.fff.org/2019/09/20/trump-fdr-and-war/

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