While I realsied that America was fighting to protect its markets, the actual GI Joes that fought actually believed that they were fighting for civilization, and so to them, I say thank you. However, I have always believed that the Soviet Union would have defeated Germany by herself and that Britain got nothing out of the war except the death of thousands of its young men, the bombing of its cities, the collapse of both its economy and its Empire, and a reduction to 2nd rate status in its place in the world. We could have stayed out of it and we should.