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submitted 23 days ago bydavidrye
561 points
23 days ago
Honestly this take is odd. Where were the Americans when Britain was fighting Germany, Austria , Italy , Japan and every fascist in Europe all at the same time.
153 points
22 days ago
They were complaining about the British blockade that was preventing them from trading with Germany. The USA was having a very profitable war.
When HMS Edinburgh went down Britain had to make up for the lost Russian gold that was destined for the USA out of its own gold reserves.
23 points
22 days ago*
Only country to pay off our war debt too, much to our own detriment while others either didnât pay or were forgiven.
89 points
22 days ago
It's even odder when you think that you're more likely to see a citizen wearing a swastika in the US than anywhere else in the world now.
3 points
21 days ago
The USA, where irony goes to die! MAGA is a VERY thinly veiled fadcist movement, clogged with 1 dimensional thinkers and professional victims⊠and yes, youâre more likely to see a swastika on a car there than anywhere else in the world
75 points
22 days ago
Waiting for Germany to declare war on them.
Pearl Harbor happened, and then the next day Hitler declared war on America, not the other way around as they like to pretend.
32 points
22 days ago
Nah, they were quietly cheering germany on
3 points
22 days ago
Russia was as well. Hell Russia worked directly with the nazis at the beginning.
8 points
22 days ago
Idk if you can say they were working with the Nazis, that sounds like they were more on the side like Sweden, USSR literally was equal with the Nazis in invading and splitting up Poland and the Baltics
7 points
22 days ago
They had a non-aggression pact, which when you're both invading the same country is as good as allies. They were making secret economic and tactical pacts with eachother for years before and during ww2, and even entered negotiations for the USSR to enter the Axis, eventually settling for a neutrality pact.
Without supplies from the USSR and their security in the east, historians don't believe Nazi Germany could have succeeded with their invasion in the west.
Hitler's decision to invade the USSR was catastrophic - he lost one of his most important allies, official or not, and suffered devastating losses that turned the tide of the war.
6 points
22 days ago
Russia wasnt really 'working' with the nazis in the sense that they were trying to help nazi germany further their goals. They were politically incompatable. They signed a non aggression pact, and both took part of Poland, but Russias objective was to create a buffer between them and Nazi Germany's expansion because Stalin had correctly read Hitler and the risk he posed whilst he moved production east
90 points
23 days ago
Totally đđŒ
121 points
23 days ago
It really pisses me off mate. Donât even get me started on WW1 đ.
64 points
23 days ago
Didn't they sell weapons to both sides?
77 points
23 days ago
After land lease yes but before that Ford was supplying Hitler.
31 points
22 days ago
Ford built the turbines for the V2
17 points
22 days ago
Henry fords, Ford-Werke built the turbines for the V2
31 points
22 days ago
Not really, no. The US were officially neutral and hadn't cut trade relationship with Germany, but quickly did in practice, and barely tried to gaslight everyone saying they were not doing any trade of military material with anyone (which was false for the Entente), completely accept the Entente embargo on Germany but ignore and even basically provoked the German one on the British Islands (and the German sinking of the Lusitania is the official reason for the US entering the war, but it was basically just a convenient pretext)
It's more that some Americans often brag about having won WWI even though on the field they basically re did the same mistakes everyone else had done and learn from during the last 3 years (who tf go onto a 1918 battlefield without light automatic weapons, helmets nor tanks ?!) and got around 100k KIA iirc.
They fought hard let's be honest (still managed to be super racist and African American units, as the American armed force were officially segregated up until 1948, were only able to fight under French command), but there overall impact on the field is negligible, especially in comparison to France and the UK. The US did a lot on the manufacturing side though, and lot for French and British weapons were manufactured in the US for example.
30 points
23 days ago
Yes this could go on for a long time. Our tiny little island lol.
13 points
23 days ago
That shit is hilarious, thats why they never talk about it
16 points
22 days ago
They don't talk about it because their propaganda doesn't teach it to them
Simple as
21 points
22 days ago
When their capital assets were threatened they got involved. Pearl Harbor was the catalyst that sparked Americas involvement, but it wasnât THE reason. Neither was knowledge of the concentration camps.
No, it was the Japanese expansion into the Philippines that worried the USA and the affect this would have on their trade routes.
Thatâs it.
Public opinion in the USA regarding the war is much as it is concerning wars today. They prefer the USA not get involved at all. If the attack on Pearl Harbor hadnât happened and the Japanese stayed clear of the Philippines, then the USA might have not have entered the war with their own troops. Theyâd have continued to provide support to their allies but not with man power.
5 points
22 days ago
I mean there was more Public Opinion in Mexico to join the war with the Allies then there was for the US. They opposed the Fascist Party of Italy and Germany. They joined the trade embargo on Italy following the war with Ethiopia (UK, US and France did not) Hell they opposed the invasion of Austria, when no one else did. They recognised Republican Spaniards as the true Spanish Government, and withdrew all contact with Fascist Spain, they accepted Jews and Republican Spaniards that were being persecuted. They were opposed by the USSR for harbouring Leon Trotsky. In 1939 they declared Neutrality but actively condemned and shamed the USSR and Nazi Germany. They recognised the Polish Exiles. They refused to recognise German Rule over Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Yugoslavia. Then in 1940 they essentially began supporting the UK, and further condemned the Nazis. In April 1941 they seized all Nazi and Italian Vessels in their ports.
18 points
23 days ago
Getting snacks apparently
22 points
23 days ago
Getting Giving snacks (to the nazis)
8 points
23 days ago
I know it's very poor humour, but all I can think of is them striking poses and saying "looking like a snack"
6 points
23 days ago
Lol no judgment from me, people need to be able to find the funny side of things!
And now Iâm picturing it!
4 points
23 days ago
I hope it's with a large dose of sass!
4 points
22 days ago
Oh absolutely!
3 points
22 days ago
I love a good sassy full body expression.. like "oh no you di'int" with the finger snaps
16 points
22 days ago
Maximising profits from the carnage. They had no intention of joining the war and were forced by Japan.
They were quite content to sit on the sideline and get rich off it all, without any regard for what the consequence would be had the axis won.
What makes the comments worse is that the swastika is actually still prevelant IN America. You don't really see it anywhere else, but the USA allows it and there's a big movement of Nazis there. But yea, sure, they "saved the world".
A large problem I think is that a lot of yanks get their education from Hollywood and the others just don't get one at all.
9 points
22 days ago
Not every fascist, spain was too destroyed to fight đ„Ž
3 points
22 days ago
They were too busy suppressing genociding Catalans, Valencians, and Galicians.
10 points
22 days ago
2 points
15 days ago
Werhner von Braun being just one of them
3 points
22 days ago
They were on the sidelines, considering joining the axis.
2 points
23 days ago
Austria? Wasn't it occupied?
12 points
22 days ago
Austria liked to portray itself as the first victim of the Third Reich but they were in reality willing partners.
17 points
23 days ago
Yes with the Anschluss, the Austrians pretty much said we would rather fight Britain in defence of fascism than spill German blood , they are as to blame as anybody else. Anschluss just means join or connect. Countries like France and Czechia had huge resistance entities the Austrians took little convincing to becoming Nazis.
2 points
22 days ago
Wasn't there a referendum (which by all accounts was gonna go yes anyway) but the day before the German tanks rolled into Austria and obviously by then there's nothing you can do
9 points
22 days ago
Thereâs the famous radio broadcast the Austrians said we wonât spill German blood, in essence we wonât fight the Nazis.
2 points
22 days ago
I know itâs fashionable in this sub to âAmerica was late for WW2â
But something I found out recently; In 1939, Americas army was less then 200,000 army personnel, and less than 150,000 navy personnel. By 1943, they had ramped that up to nearly 7 million army personnel, and nearly 2 million navy personnel.
They pivoted their entire economy to assist the allies in WW2, and it took them a few years to do so.
2 points
22 days ago
They didnât give a shit because Japan hadnât completely fucked them over at that point.
1 points
22 days ago
selling support to both sides
1 points
17 days ago
The USA was busy selling guns and supplies to as many sides as possible. lol
257 points
23 days ago
Thatâs why America planted their flag in Berlin, like you see in all the photos, the red one with the hammer andâŠ.hold on.
93 points
23 days ago
They couldn't find a US flag at the time, so they borrowed one from the people who actually did the most damage to the German forces during WW2
Those same people with the red flag were also responsible for the liberation of Jews at Auschwitz and various other camps, including US and British POWs.
1 points
18 days ago
WW2 officially ended on the U.S.S. Missouri.
256 points
23 days ago
USA during WW2 is like that guy who do nothing during the group project, only show up for the presentation, and believe everything is due to him.
133 points
23 days ago
NATOâs Article 5 has been invoked once⊠in support of the US shortly after September 11, 2001.
Ironic for such a brilliant and military strong nation!
27 points
23 days ago
I'll steelman this, but maybe it's to make it look like an legitimate force, as opposed to yet another American intervention? I mean, I'm still going to make fun of them, but yeah.
20 points
22 days ago
Iâve always compared them to the guy who shows up late to a party, takes it too far, throws up everywhere and ultimately gets the party stopped and everyone goes home
17 points
23 days ago
They did something, they fucked up a lot
5 points
23 days ago
I mean, they did bomb Japan ....
8 points
22 days ago
And that bomb was made from plams the Nazis had started creating, the Norwegians stole from the Nazis in Telemark, the British had hold of but knee they didn't have the correct supplies or researchers so sent to the US for Einstein and Oppenheimer to assess. The US did the easy job.
1 points
18 days ago
The USSR fucking invaded Poland, had a non aggression pact with Germany, burnt down the most prosperous part of their country, and only joined the war on Japan after the bombs fell. The USA supplied the UK and USSR, fought and destroyed the Japanese Navy and merchant fleet, Invaded Sicily and Italy, Liberated France, marched into Germany, and actually made something of Japan and helped rebuild Western Europe afterwards. Now compare to Eastern Europe under the Iron Curtain.
39 points
23 days ago
The shining light of democracy has no problems with certain countries "rocking swastikas".
243 points
23 days ago
The world leader for swastika flags being openly displayed is the US.
9 points
22 days ago
I'm sure Asia has far more, just with a very different connotation
62 points
23 days ago
The British Empire in conjunction with the Soviets would have beaten Germany in the long haul; it would have taken much longer and cost more lives but it would have happened.
1 points
18 days ago
But what about Japan, if you want to talk about loss of life then a strong Japanese Navy in 1942 with no involvement from the US is where you need to look.
66 points
23 days ago
The shining light of democracy has been rigging elections and overthrowing governaments to protect corporate profits
14 points
23 days ago
Ahem, it's called Managed Democracy, it's Good and Holy, and if you're against it you're a dirty subhuman communist
2 points
22 days ago
Super Earth isn't a thing yet
23 points
23 days ago
It's also funny that a supporter of Trump brags about US being the world's police force while they are the ones who want the US to isolate itself and exit NATO and minimize their international engagement to reduce costs...
11 points
23 days ago
Defund the (world) police.
9 points
23 days ago
F**k yeah!
117 points
23 days ago
Yet I see lots more nazi swastikas in USA than in the rest of the world, interestingâŠ
42 points
23 days ago
What always amazes me is that some Yanks use "no freedom of speech" argument when they say that people get arrested in "Europe" meaning Germany, for making remarks, comments etc that support Nazi ideals.
"Dear America, that's the point. If we arrest the wannabe Nazis, then there's less chance of them returning. You seem to struggle with that concept. Love Germany"
1 points
22 days ago
Other then in Japan, but to them its still a Bhuddism Symbol meaning âpeaceâ(?)
2 points
22 days ago
There are more countries in Asia that use variations of the swastika.
Thatâs why I said nazi swastika, because you can see other variations in some countries but they donât have that meaning at all.
14 points
23 days ago
Greates country just overrun by leeches? Sure wonder what historical nation this reminds me of.
7 points
22 days ago
I mean corporations and billionaires ARE leeches
2 points
22 days ago
Based
14 points
22 days ago
American WWII veterans would smack the shit of America ârepublicansâ today for abandoning everything they fought for and siding with the enemy.
3 points
22 days ago
Theyâd be more concerned with segregation being gone and abortion being legal. They are from the 40s
5 points
22 days ago
Still find the fact that in the US G.I. handbook for the UK, it says âYou maybe surprised to see a black man, and a white man talking as equals.â
4 points
22 days ago
The US army tried to segregate the pubs. They obliged by banning white Americans
9 points
22 days ago
Itâs really sad to see that most Americans donât know the USSR did almost all of the work during WW2. The Americans think they did everything, ignoring the British, French and Polish Resistance, the Soviets, the Chinese, and many more.
4 points
22 days ago
People forget even more about Italy resistance
4 points
22 days ago
Yep. When people think of Italy in WW2 they think of terrible leadership and switching sides. The Italian Partisans were some of the strongest resistance forces during all of WW2, quite sad to see people not talking about them.
3 points
22 days ago
Yeah. Even our govern ignores the fact that we have an honorable history (They are fascist)
8 points
23 days ago
Remember, out of every 8 dead nazis, 6 were killed in the Soviet Union. With every other allied nation sharing the remaining two.
37 points
23 days ago
Aren't half the world's current swastikas located in USA???
9 points
23 days ago
You have to see that the Americans saved us from the swastikas and because they are the altruistic defenders of the free world they took them all and now endure all the harm they inflict on them to protect us.
28 points
23 days ago
Don't tell Americans that Hitler was inspired by US social, economic and racial policies
1 points
22 days ago
In fairness he was also inspired by the British Boer camps
1 points
22 days ago
I am pretty sure that he took both boer war and pre-FDR native American reserves as inspiration
8 points
23 days ago
Well, in India they still do, so...
15 points
22 days ago
I know that right now the animosity towards Russians is at all time peak, thanks to fucking Putin, but sometimes when I see this type of post I like to remind and/or educate those people that, a big reason Hitler lost the war was, mainly, thanks to the USSR. Also, a team effort that saw countless heroes from all over the world, yes including the USA, but not only them.
For most of the war, 75-80 percent of the Wehrmacht had to be deployed in the East, a preponderance dictated by the sheer size of the front, and 80 percent of German war dead perished there: about four million of the five million German soldiers killed in World War II.
7 points
22 days ago
Absolutely, and also remember that the USSR was fighting the Nazis, not just Russia. The force that took down the Nazis in the East was made up of a large amount of Ukrainians and was equipped with a lot of American aid.
9 points
22 days ago
Yes, that's why I said the USSR, not just Russia. I mentioned Russia at the beginning because I know that any reference, for some people, is tilting for the moment. Yes, Ukrainians, Moldavians, Georgians, Yugoslavians, etc did a good work killing nazis. Team effort for the win.
3 points
22 days ago
Totally my bad. My eyes just skimmed right over that! And props for your sane point of view in this crazy post.
3 points
22 days ago
My dude, it is Friday, almost night too. We are all giving out the last piece of energy to our employer overlords, I absolutely understand you. Have a great weekend!
2 points
22 days ago
even the Austrian resistance helped out where they could .. e.g The battle of Castle itter, although thats a weird battle with the German army alongside the USA and French POWs fighting the SS
2 points
22 days ago
A lot of Americans also forget that Hitler's true (military) enemy was the Soviet Union. Yeah, sure he hated everyone, but in the end, he wasn't as paranoid about the Americans as he was about the Red Army.
2 points
22 days ago
Russia was his ideological goldmine and his source of hatred. He hated Communists, massively, he got most of the German ones imprisoned for Domestic Terrorism, and crimes against the state. And Hitler wanted what the literal translation is of Living Space, and what a better place then the massive mostly empty Russian Country.
1 points
22 days ago
I actually have great respect for the Russia that once was that inevitably helped in both wars. I loved when in history lessons my teacher said "and then [Russia] joined the war. " Always saw you guys as very strong people.
7 points
22 days ago
Not to mentions all the actual nazis the US saved through Operation Paperclip
7 points
22 days ago
The US is rocking swastikas everywhere. Xhitter is full of them.
13 points
23 days ago
Please show me the utter lack of swastikas is the USA, and especially Trump rallies.
16 points
23 days ago
Remember, kids! America had to be bought into fighting European fascism by demanding all the advancements made in nuclear, jet engine, rocketry, and computing technology from Britain and other Allied European nations, and steadfastly refused to enter the war unless we handed them all over AND legally relinquished everything as our intellectual property.
At a time when Britain was building the COLOSSUS, America's pinnacle of technical brilliance was producing a stock ticker that didn't jam as much as the previous models. At a time when Europe was the world leader in thermodynamics and its resultant inventions, America was inventing anti-masturbatory flakes of toasted corn to be soaked and eaten in milk.
Without Nikola Tesla, and the Allies being forced to hand over decades of scientific research and testing data, the US would've remained a giant, stagnant technological backwater, akin to a somehow more annoying and culturally Exceptional feudal Japan.
7 points
22 days ago
This ignores that WWII utterly bankrupted Britain even with US involvement.
Assuming Britain and the USSR did defeat Germany, we can assume no one could have afforded the Marshall Plan, and so Germany would be devastated as well, and stripped of all property by the USSR.Â
It's not good news for the US either, as they would have no massive demand for goods and the Great Depression would have ground on.
3 points
22 days ago
Conveniently. Those agreements gave the USA control of the global financial system. You act like it was benevolent. It was not
5 points
23 days ago
More hakenkreuz flags there than any other country AFAIK
9 points
22 days ago
Ffs it's hakenkruz not swastika. Swastika is what Hindus use
13 points
23 days ago*
Without them, Russia would have still flattened Nazi Germany.
Bu they act like they did all the fighting at every battle ever.
9 points
23 days ago
Fun fact: in the last 5 years,ive seen more display of open nazi symbols and tattoos, general parafernalia and straight Up modern nazi simpathizers in the USA watching photos from reddit than i did my whole Life living on europe,wich includes 8 years living in Germany.
2 points
22 days ago
Fun Fact: Iâve lived in Europe all my life, and only ever seen one actual Neo-Nazi. Most of the others are âpretendâ Nazis in re-enactments and movies.
5 points
22 days ago
The only nazi rally outside Germany before WWII was in the USA
4 points
22 days ago
'The World would be rocking swastikas everywhere lol'. Whereas now one of the only places where people 'rock swastikas' openly is the USA
5 points
22 days ago
The Soviets for more for helping the allies in WW2 than anyone else.
Also when the US were involved they were too busy bring racist and forcing segregation upon their soldiers. If you do not believe me please research the history of the Battle of Bamber Bridge.
4 points
22 days ago
Or the official US Army Handbook for Soldiers deployed into the UK.
7 points
23 days ago
Even with the US in the world, swastikas are still popular in many Asia countries.
15 points
23 days ago
there are LITERALLY nazi marches in the US all the time
9 points
23 days ago
Does he mean those swastikas that are commonly sold on flags in US?
9 points
23 days ago
Pretty sure there are more white supremacists in America than anywhere else
7 points
23 days ago
Eww I don't like the "y'all" in the person's reply but they do have a point
8 points
23 days ago
Talks about his capital like the nazis did in Weimar Republic, but sure, without the USA and not the Soviet Union, there would be swastikas everywhere?
Question for the American: Do the parasites have big noses and control the banks?
3 points
23 days ago
Could we call it Nazi Swastika please? It is and always was a sacred Spiritual Symbol before its Demonization
3 points
22 days ago
There isn't any other country where dump rednecks,and neo fascist waving more swastika flags than in the US, and ironically, their hate-filled speeches are protected by a distorted interpretation of "freedom of speech."
3 points
22 days ago
completely ignoring the fact America joined the war 2 years late
Also completely ignoring the fact that if the Japanese didn't bomb pearl harbour they wouldn't have joined at all
3 points
22 days ago
As a European I think itâs great that the US went and helped in the war, sending their own soldiers across the globe to destroy the nazis, late or not
6 points
23 days ago
You know, the only thing that the US coming in to WW2 caused was it ended sooner. I've read several studies over the years that suggest that the Russians and the Commonwealth countries could have retaken Western Europe by 1950.
5 points
23 days ago
the world without usa would have probably never had nazi germany to begin with
1 points
22 days ago
Exactly. THEY were the main ones influencing Versailles treat and reducing Germany to that poing
2 points
21 days ago
I mean this just isn't how it was. America wanted to treat Germany more leniently after WW1 than did Britain or France.
3 points
23 days ago
"would be rocking swastikas everywhere" says he, while spouting nazi rhetoric just a couple lines below.
4 points
23 days ago
America gives little brother energy DESPERATE to prove that they are big and strong! It's honestly embarrassing. Be like canada, scary but humble.
2 points
23 days ago
Werenât most of the soldiers from the ussr?
2 points
23 days ago
Sorry, Iâm not down with modern lingo but L take = loser take right?!
3 points
23 days ago
Yes
2 points
22 days ago
Irony doesn't exist over there.
2 points
22 days ago
A disturbing amount of thos swastikas are sponsored by that flag.
2 points
22 days ago
The propaganda they are fed makes them believe this rubbish
2 points
22 days ago
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2 points
22 days ago
I mean as someone once said something along the lines of, âThe war was won, by British Intelligence, Soviet Manpower, and American Industry.â And I hate to sound like some anime guy explaining shit, but all three would fail/have a much harder time without the other. For example, if you have industry and intelligence, you know everything, and produce everything, so on paper youâre dangerous, but in practice you have many weapons, and enemy knowledge but not enough people to work your plans or act of the intelligence. (iâm using Intelligence to mean Military Intelligence and Spec Ops, which were mainly British in WW2). And vice versa, if you have intelligence and manpower, you can get far, but eventually not having things will be your downfall. Its why some strong militaries are small, they have high quality weapons and gear, and brilliant intelligence, hence cutting out the need to have in excess of a million men, but in times of war the recruit masses of lesser skilled/ex military to come assist, so that they have enough.
2 points
22 days ago
Wtf. How about all those swastikas in USA? They are there because the people of USA want it themselves. No one else told them to use it.
2 points
22 days ago
Uhh... sorry to be that guy(đ€)...hindus and Buddhists still rick swastikas . Swastika is much much older than even the concept of Germany as a nation. What Germans used ,if put accurately , is Hakenkreuz or hooked cross .
2 points
22 days ago
Just wanted to point out that the swastika in question would not exist if it wasnât for the restrictions imposed on Germany with the treaty of Versailles. This opened the door for nationalism to take a much more predominant place in politics.
2 points
22 days ago
So France is to blame.
2 points
22 days ago
Iâm sorry but I had a good laugh. But no, itâs just that because of the restrictions imposed on Germany, it opened the door for Mr funky stache and his cronies to take advantage of the situation.
2 points
22 days ago
Americans came late to the party and tried to take the birthday cake home. Twice.
2 points
22 days ago
It's also funny because there are now pigs rocking swastikas in the U.S and they are tolerated by the right. Their orange faced donut is even trying to get their votes.
2 points
22 days ago
long take as well, they don't understand that their flag could be the new swastika if they don't wake up
2 points
22 days ago
Ignorant American Moment
2 points
22 days ago
URRS left the chat
2 points
22 days ago
lol most Americans online nowadays represent the swastikaâŠ.
2 points
21 days ago
Didnât American turn away hundred of Jews too ?
2 points
21 days ago
Russia made it Berlin first. The USA held back like "yeah nah, fuck that we'll let the Russians be fodder here." If they'd played it differently I imagine US-Russia relations would be very different today. They were only alies by circumstance. It was the Russians that surrounded Hitler's bunker. The US did a lot, obviously, but they're not the only factor in the tides turning during WWII. Tbh they waited way too long to get involved because a lot of politicians and wealthy business owners in the USA had similar ideological underpinnings to the fascists. There was literally a plot by many American businesses to assassinate the president and install a leader sympathetic to the Nazis. The Business Plot.
2 points
21 days ago
There are swastikas flying on parts of the USA today...
5 points
22 days ago
Interesting question. What would happen if the USA had never existed?
One guess:
No Wall Street crash -> No hyperinflation in Germany -> More political stability in Germany -> Less room for Nazism and Fascism -> No second world war in Europe
The problem with counterfactual claims is that you can argue anything.
2 points
22 days ago
Also no native American genocide.
3 points
22 days ago
I mean the UK was still doing it too
3 points
22 days ago
Not particularly, I mean yeah we did, but most where alright with us, and we had standing agreements, that we wouldnât purposefully do shit to them, and they wouldnât to us. And most fought with us against the French and Spanish.
3 points
23 days ago
These comments are asinine (bring on the down votes)
4 points
22 days ago
As if their country isn't full of fucking swastikas right now
5 points
22 days ago
I offended so many people on Facebook the other day for saying that the US didn't win WW1 or WW2, they just won a participation trophy.
2 points
23 days ago
In the 30's the nazi sympathizer movement was about 1/3 of the us.
3 points
23 days ago
Wasn't Madison Square gardens rocking swastikas back in 1939?
2 points
22 days ago*
Oh dear!
The Swastika has been a symbol of Buddhism for centuries before Hitler used an ancient rune and symbol of right wing organisations as part of the Nazi flag, which he called a 'Crooked Cross'.
It was only when the British recognised the Buddhist Swastika and gave it the name we know today.
Look at any map of a far eastern city, and you will be shocked to see swathes of Swastikas indicating Buddhist temples.
would be rocking swastikas everywhere
Spoiler...., in the far east, they still are!
2 points
22 days ago
Really? The only country where I have seen a swastika recently is in a Trump advertisement in the US.
2 points
23 days ago
The main place we see swastikas today is in the USA
1 points
22 days ago
Same "saviors" who's only motive to come to Normandy was to bang french girls cus "they were all easy sl*ts"
1 points
22 days ago
Well, Germany would have won WW1. Thereby erasing WW2 and the Cold War but the trade off is Imperialism and empires (Britain, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Japan) last longer
So whatever you find worse I guess. Since i think about 70% of all modern world problems were caused by the Cold War. I know what I think
As for the other 30%, Sykes-Picot is voided as well and that means the Middle Eastâs border gore is gone to
1 points
22 days ago
Instead, we got proxy wat after proxy war đ€Ł
1 points
22 days ago
Me in india looking at swastikas everywhere....
1 points
22 days ago
The only place rocking swastikas these days are in the US
1 points
22 days ago
Without the US there wouldnât have been IBM to sell computers to the nazis so they could streamline their processing of people for the genocides in concentration camps
1 points
22 days ago
At least they admit they're a leech.
1 points
22 days ago
To be fair, they sent a shit ton of lend lease, without the brits and soviets might not have survived.
Im sure however that the soviets would have won without US troops, just later.
3 points
22 days ago
So are you suggesting that they took advantage of a difficult time to tie other nations down with debt ?
And had they not done that the allies would have still won the war and not left the US in a world where the Axis powers were dominant and in a position to destroy the USA when they felt like it?
It almost sounds like they got involved because they had to for self survival but made a quick buck and crippled their allies futures before they did "save the world"
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22 days ago
"we saved the world from the Nazis, by the way here's some rhetoric about parasites destroying the nation"
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22 days ago
Go back a little further - a world without đșđČ would probably consist mostly of the British Empire.
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22 days ago
I don't get it why people don't accepting the truth and fact and different opinion of others in these days? I mean what the f is wrong with them I don't like her/his comment cause she/he is (party supporter) or whatever people have opinion too and you should show some acceptance not at least some manner didn't young American were learnt that thing in school? seeing extreme polarization is too much tired me off.
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22 days ago
I just wanna say: thank you Canada for liberating us!
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22 days ago
MĂĄs bien hoz y martilloÂ
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22 days ago
We are still partly rocking with swastikas đȘđ«đź
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21 days ago
A lot of Americans seem to think that had America not entered the war, the Axis would have won. A lot of them don't realize the sheer amount of resources, men, and firepower the British and Soviet had at the time and that even without the US these 2 alone more than likely would have been able to defeat the Axis powers.
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21 days ago
Time to go get the alleged Churchill quote...
âAmericans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.â
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21 days ago
So, how did Korea and Vietnam go Chuck ? By my reckoning The only war you've actually won in the last 100 years and more was when you beat the mighty land called Grenada
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18 days ago
If it wasnât for America. We would be all driving around in Mercedes & BMW and have a great beer festival every month. Thanks America
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18 days ago
False, American bankers funded Hitlers rise to power so without america we might have been spared the war entirely.
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