I didn’t give that example because it wasn’t widely known in the same way the Blitz was. Also because antisemitism was as rampant in the US in the 1930s as it was in Europe.

And in both cases we were asked to aid light skinned Europeans who we had broad cultural connections to.

Sadly I don’t think Americans are going to vote based on the plights of brown folks in places they couldn’t point to on a map. 3/3

The Marshall Plan, that saved tens of thousands from starvation and generational poverty in Europe after WWII didn’t get support in Congress due to the humanitarian need, but because it undermined Soviet inroads into Western Europe. 2/3

Americans have historically had very little real interest in the pain and suffering of non-Americans. The Blitz and all the horrors inflicted on the British didn’t rouse Americans to support going to war against Nazism and Fascism. Only a direct attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese did that. 1/3