The average American knows so little about the First World War that propagandized is a strong word. I’d go for “ignorantly and indifferently assumed”. But yeah, the prevailing attitude about the Second World War is maddening and the number of Americans who use “if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking German” as a rebuke of complaints by Europeans about modern issues drives me crazy.
And every major war since WWII has been compared to it, whether it’s Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. And most people buy it every single time, which is absolutely wild.
Most of them are propagandized to believe they singlehandedly won both world wars.
So yea, the war hawks have them believe they’re invincible, before they’re fed to the cannon.
The average American knows so little about the First World War that propagandized is a strong word. I’d go for “ignorantly and indifferently assumed”. But yeah, the prevailing attitude about the Second World War is maddening and the number of Americans who use “if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking German” as a rebuke of complaints by Europeans about modern issues drives me crazy.
And every major war since WWII has been compared to it, whether it’s Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. And most people buy it every single time, which is absolutely wild.