Tesla plunges in Consumer Reports' rankings

Re:Tesla plunges in Consumer Reports' rankings by dragonwriter on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:57PM (#12783990)

By the time the US entered WW1, Europe had already destroyed itself, the major belligerents were exhausted (or had already dropped out), and the war was on the edge of ending anyway.

And, while the US contribution to the outcome in WWII was more significant globally than in WWI, we absolutely did not get involved to save Europe from anything, or anyone from Europe. It wasn't Europeans that attacked Pearl Harbor.

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Re:Tesla plunges in Consumer Reports' rankings by terravion on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:45PM (#12784264)

That's a re-write of history.

The Roosevelt administration Congress has approved the Lend-Lease act which meant active involvement in Europe with armaments, active naval combat in the North Atlantic, and ground troops in Iceland. The US had started building a 'two ocean' Navy almost two years before Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a final gift to the Roosevelt administration's multi-year program of full mobilization.

This program of support and mobilization absolutely was in response to events in Europe and a desire to see the UK in particular not fall. Note that when the US did enter the war, the Pacific was designated the secondary theater of operations.

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