Wow, I caught a kingfish! You never know what you'll catch on a good day.
Dwight, I don't see it so much as the USA bailing Britain and others out. I see it as people who like civilization versus people who like totalitarian power. If the numbers are good and the technology and other stuff right, the good guys win. It's a world of individuals who act more or less in concert according to their ideas.
So, the USA, Britain, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and a few others acted pretty much in concert to stop Hitler's ideas. No particular country or individual bailed out anyone else. They acted in concert. Sure, the people who invented the atomic bomb did a great job and one genius is worth a million bayonet carriers. The biggest and toughest country [the USA] perhaps did more than any other individual country, though the Russians sure did soften Germany up. But it's a team effort and the individuals who matter. A boastful American might have done much less than a brave Gurkha. Or, some thieving Indians might have been more a hindrance than a help to the cause.
It's a world of individual morals which must operate within a world of national and international laws.
I think the use of religion as you mentioned [to rally the troops I guess] is a fraud. I don't like fraud. It's treating people with contempt to think they need to be lied to to get them to do the right thing.
Churchill apparently called Ghandi a little fakir. Well, from what you said, I'd call Churchill a faker.
The funny thing is that New Zealand is now [and has been for a while] heading down the road which Hitler and Stalin tried. Hopefully we stop before it gets too bad. NZ opposed apartheid in South Africa, but is now passing laws creating it here. NZ is going flat out on collectivist, state-controlled plans although Mao, Stalin and others showed that ends in tears.
I think I only heard of the Atlantic Conference when I checked that time line [I never liked history - I don't really care what happened centuries or even decades ago, though it's interesting in small doses].
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