I ask this question as I am sick of hearing 'You'd be speaking German without us' etc etc and I point to these reasons;
i) In WW1, our national sovereignty was never in question. We were fighting to help our Allies (from the start I may add!) in a foreign country. The notion of an invasion against Britain was never there. We were also not too badly for the TWO years we were going alone. The US chose to enter the war not to help us but because they didn't like losing masses of shipping to German U-Boats (namely the Lusitania).
ii) In WW2, we had already been through the rough patch of the Blitz etc and Operation Sealion (the German invasion of Britain) had been long since permanently postponed due to the RAF's air superiority over the Channel before the Japenese caught America napping and made them join the fight. So, had America not entered the war, the Continent may now have a slightly more Bavarian tone, but we would still very much be here and more importantly, be BRITISH.
2007-02-11
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