Japan being buying american land from Manhattan to Hawaii... so you may need to re evaluate one of those allies. Defense wise, we only allowed japan to have enough ammo to defend the islands for a week.

The Marshall plan was created to redo the mess, largely created by Britain and France after the first world war. Wilson wanted to go easy on Germany and it's allies but the winners wanted to squash them in the ground. The long and ponderous book "Pairs 1919" made that clear. Without the treaty of Versailles there probably would have been no WWII. Now we held the winning hand and called the shots and, despite grumbling from others, it has kept the peace for 60+ years.

Germany and Japan revised their constitutions where they would not engage in fighting. They would assist in a non-violent way. Also, Germany has kept conscription (18 months) which helps keep an emergency force and gives many a meaningful career.

I would argue that the UK and Canada are are staunchest allies, but my current closest friend and I never spoke to each other for the first year we worked together. We accidentally discovered we had a lot in common.

Benjamin Franklin used to tell a story about someone who had become his implacable enemy. One day, Franklin asked this guy if he would be kind enough to loan him a particular rare book from his personal collection that he had long wanted to read. Once this man obliged Franklin, he could no longer regard Franklin in the same negative way, and became much more positive toward him. (Of course Franklin thanked him profusely, and returned the book as promised).

So this is kind of a reverse-jiu jitsu way of "killing someone with kindness". It's hard to see someone you've done a good turn to, as a terrible human being.

Kill them with kindness!

I we hadn't ripped our guts out resisting, the USA would, today, be negotiating, at a disadvantage, with the Third Reich. You wouldn't have gone to the moon - they would.

Germany and Japan don't send troops to where you need them.

You put me off my egg and chips (French fries in American)

I like that. I wish everyone felt that way, maybe we could finally stop the wars.