Not at the start of the war. The US had the infrastructure and resources to out produce anyone else.
The reason the Axis lost is because they underestimated what America was capable of.
At the start of which war?
WWII, as I stated.
There was no Axis prior to that.
I’m not sure what you’re saying? Yes, the US was an economic superpower before WWII. Not before WWI.
Yes, you are right. But the US was a major power before WWI. And that was due the our industrial might.
Are you getting hung up on superpower vs major power?
You don’t realize you are saying here that agriculture was the best economic use of black people. How many potential Edison’s, Rockefellers and Franklins died as field hands? Slavery squanders labor.
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No, that is incorrect. From 1898 to 1916, the US was emerging as a world player.
Do you really think the US wasn’t a major player prior to WWI?
From 1898 to 1916, the US was emerging as a major player.
OK, seems to me to be a fine line.
No Bob, it’s not.
In the industrial revolution, they exploited the poor. That’s why there are workers’ rights.
And I will be the first to admit that while it catapulted the U.S to the top, it is Capitalism gone amok.
If you say so. 
Vast amounts of oil and industrialization and inventions started the great industrial revolution in the US. Then the real dominance of the US began in the 1950s…after we blew up the industries of Japan and Germany.
You are dwelling too far into the past.
And none of that has anything to do with how well someone is doing in math today.
History says so Bob.
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Don’t forget my personal favorite “Don’t make whites feel uncomfortable when teaching about the past”.
We need a law for that…but making sure our legal code doesn’t build in bias and discrimination…that’s off the table.
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Of course it wasn’t,
So?
The elites are the ones who owned slaves, but the narrative is that all white people owned slaves. The same elites who publish the history books and control almost all media are the ones who owned slaves, created and continue to perpetuate this false narrative in order to foment never-ending division.
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Absolutely true. None of my family on either side ever owned a slave.
They were fairly poor families who worked the family farms as did most other families during that era.
Plantation owners were certainly NOT the average/norm in those days.
