• Anticorp@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I’m pretty sure he was joking. The British were on the verge of defeat when the United States entered the war.

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      10 days ago

      I’m sure he was, or at least making the statement in a wry way. It’s a very English sort of humour to understate the seriousness of the situation like that.