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** Being fair, even the American officer in the conversation freely admits that the aid would have come with 'requests' for concessions. He just made the entirely reasonable point that said concessions would still have been far, far less expensive than actually having a war.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - One of the Marines protests when Edwards is about to summarily execute their Russian prisoners. However, he and everyone else quickly accepts that they wouldn't have been able to take the Russians with them anyway and there was no way they could leave living witnesses.
** Under at least some interpretations of the Geneva Conventions that action was actually legal - if there is no possible way you can take prisoners without suicidally compromising your own safety, then you are not obligated to take any.
* [[World War Three]]
* [[Yanks With Tanks]] - All four major branches of the US military are involved in the war.