Duh it goes:
1. Staring at a solar eclipse without sun glasses.
2. Banning slavery.
3. Stopping Hitler's regime.
You mean, "Selling weapons to other people so they could stop Hitler's regime."
WWII was won on the Eastern Front in Europe. Everything else was a distraction--not necessarily unimportant, but a distraction.
I wasn't being technical.
I see enough Americans saying, "We stopped the Nazis!" that at this point it's a reflex for me to say, "No, the Russians stopped the Nazis. You distracted the Nazis."
Again, important distractions. And Lend-Lease was an important program (and set the US on the path to being the arms dealer it is today). But put everything in its proper context.
EDIT:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/destoyer-collision-singapore-john-mccain-1.4256857Some of the sailors missing after the USS John S. McCain crashed into an oil tanker have been found dead in a flooded compartment.
Further remains have been found by search-and-rescue personnel from the Malaysian Navy, but have not yet been identified.
There is no word on whether President Trump prefers sailors who weren't in flooded compartments.