• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    I love this logic.

    If we follow it, then nobody should have stood up to Hitler, because it would mean allying with the racist US and imperial Britain.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      22 days ago

      LMFAO this is what happens when you get “education” under a western regime. The racist US and imperial Britain were completely and utterly irrelevant to defeating Hitler. In fact, what they actually accomplished was to ensure that the horrors of capitalism would continue to this day. With the US, it would have been USSR that liberated all of Europe from both the nazis and capitalist oppression.

      Don’t take my word for it though. Here’s what a book produced by US military has to say on the subject.

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        21 days ago

        How many people a month were dying because of the Nazis?

        I love how you ignore those lives as meaningless.

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            21 days ago

            You’re the one saying we shouldn’t take any actions unless they are morally blameless.

            I’ll be the first to say the US should end its wars. What I don’t understand how not using the Dems to get rid of Trump improves the situation.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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              21 days ago

              Nah that’s not what I was saying at all. It’s just a hamfisted straw man you’re using. What I was actually saying is that not only would’ve USSR defeated the nazis on their own, what the west accomplished was a net negative for the world. Had US not gotten itself involved, then Europe would’ve almost certainly have become communist. There wouldn’t have been wars in Vietnam and Korea, Afghanistan, and many other horrors the empire continues to enact, and we wouldn’t be living in capitalist hell in the west today.

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                21 days ago

                Sorry. I thought we were dealing with getting stuff done now.

                I didn’t realize you wanted to talk about alternate history.

                My mistake.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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                  21 days ago

                  No, we are not dealing with alternative history. We are dealing with the history of what the west proceeded to do after the war ended. If you’re going to talk about how many people died then you have to include all the people that the west brutally massacred during the Cold War and continues to massacre today. Because your claim is that the world order that arose out of US participating in the war was a net positive. Let me know if you need me to use smaller words to help you understand this.

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                    21 days ago

                    That’s not relevant to getting things done now.

                    The actual history is that Stalin wanted help form the US and took it. Anything else is alternate history.

                    If you want to talk about getting power away from Trump, I’m interested. Otherwise, have a nice night.

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            21 days ago

            Annnd which one of these is viewed as “good”?

            None of them. But you seem kinda hellbent on specialising the one that explicitly carved up several countries that were about to be invaded a literal week before the invasions started.

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              21 days ago

              Annnd which one of these is viewed as “good”?

              None of them are viewed as much of anything because nobody ever brings them up. Yet if someone has the gall to claim that the Soviets fought (not even beat) the Nazis, fuckers like you come in to harp on about muh Muhluhtov-Ribbenslop pact.

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                21 days ago

                I think your ignorance is rather showing here. “Appeasement” has literally become a filthy word politically because of those exact pacts. Except for Italy, which ended up an axis power in and of itself so I’m not quite sure wtf you think putting that in accomplished.

                You are getting very weirdly het up about people acknowledging the fact that pact occurred. The USSR literally did change sides mid-war. This is fact. That doesn’t negate their part in ending the war (there is literally a saying about british intelligence, US hardware and russian blood) but to act like they were the sole saviours of europe is just as much bullshit as the americans claiming the same

      • Because the US and UK did nothing else during the war except lend-lease of course. The bombing of German industry, blockades of their supply lines, the Africa-campaigns, extensive intelligence operations, no all of that definitely did nothing and didn’t contribute to the war effort at all.

        It’s likely the Allies would have won the war without the US involved, though it’s estimated it would have taken much longer. Without UK involvement, it’s more probable that the Germans could have achieved a victory, though perhaps not a total capitulation of the Soviets. Without a western front to guard as heavily, they would probably have taken Moscow by the end of 41 (irl they were 20 miles out). Japan would also have a much freeer reign in the pacific theatre.