• cornishon@lemmygrad.ml
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      The US only joined the war opportunistically and because Japan was stupid enough to drag them into it.

      Ever heard of the guy named Harry Truman (I’m sure he wasn’t anyone too important)? That’s what he had to say about WW2:

      If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

      The Soviets did the majority of the fighting against the Nazis and the Chinese againt Japan.

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      America was isolationist until they were dragged kicking and screaming into the war. Churchill was regularly crossing the Atlantic to beg Roosevelt to try to garner enough support to join the war. The American people did not care. The majority were against joining the war.

      All the same today, The majority of Americans either support MAGA or are indifferent. Short of some great personal injury such as a Pearl Harbor type event, Americans will continue to be as they are.

      The idea that Americans were anti-fascist heroes is propaganda. They were only angry that they got got by Japan.

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      The soviets saved the world from fascism, 4/5ths of Nazi deaths were on the Eastern Front. The US took advantage of its new privledged position after World War II to become the world hegemonic empire, which leads us to today. Before World War II, it was and still is to this day a genocidal settler colony.

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      My grandfather served in the same Americanmilitary who thought it was inappropriate for him to die in the same trench as a black man or for women to wear pants. I’m not really interested in fluffing their generation - they’re perfectly happy doing it themselves.

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      I want to note that the grandparents of the modern day Americans saved us from oppression and fascism

      If you’re talking about WW2 then you’re wrong