Actually, "we" didn't want to go to war at all.
About 80 percent of Americans were against another European War even after Pearl Harbor.
Churchill and FDR wanted war with Germany and British agents used fake invasion maps to dupe Americans into believing that Germany was going to invade the US via Mexico.
Germany attempted to make peace with Britain and the Western Allies in order to fight the Communists alone but Churchill and FDR wanted war.
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Boy are you full of it. Public opinion was heavily in favor of war after Pearl Harbor. Admittedly it was for war against Japan, but Germany declared war against the USA. We didn’t declare war against Germany until after that.
As for a German invasion, you have your wars mixed Up. You are thinking about the “Zimmerman Telegram” from 1917.
Germany never attempted to make peace with the USA, and its offer to the UK was “give us everything we want and we will leave you alone”. Germany would have required a pro-German government installed in the place of the Parliamentary system, most likely headed by British Nazi Oswald Mosley.
As much as I detest FDR, he was correct that Nazi Germany was a clear threat to every other country. If we hadn’t supported the UK, by 1945 we might have been facing a German ruled Canada on the north and Latin America allied with Germany on the South. There were few, if any, Latin American countries that favored the USA, and a number that openly favored Nazi Germany even as late as 1945.
The UK made an effort to NOT go to war with Germany, even sacrificing Chechloslovakia without a fight and even not immediately attacking Germany when it invaded Poland in violation of a mutual defense treaty. Both France and the UK still tried to negotiate a German withdrawal from Poland right up until Stalin’s USSR invaded Poland.
The only people wanting war in 1939 were Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Hideki Tojo.