SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 3 days agoLittle wacky how like the only good thing america ever did was fight the nazis but they turned around and gave a whole bunch of nazis citizenship and let them into the space program and military.message-squaremessage-square19 fedilinkarrow-up199file-text
arrow-up199message-squareLittle wacky how like the only good thing america ever did was fight the nazis but they turned around and gave a whole bunch of nazis citizenship and let them into the space program and military.SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 3 days agomessage-square19 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]hexagonhexbear23·3 days agoUSA not beating the allegations that the only reason it joined the war was to get footholds in Europe and Asia against communism. link
minus-squareSkeleton_Erisma [they/them, any]hexbear18·3 days agoI've pointed this out to libs and some have told me "yeah but it doesn't make the institution fundamentally bad". link
minus-squaressj2marx@lemmy.mlhexbear11·3 days agoAmerica's clash with Japan (before and after Pearl Harbor) was always better explained by the phenomenon of two empires expanding into the same place. Like the Romans and the Carthaginians fighting over the Mediterranean. linkfedilink
USA not beating the allegations that the only reason it joined the war was to get footholds in Europe and Asia against communism.
I've pointed this out to libs and some have told me "yeah but it doesn't make the institution fundamentally bad".
America's clash with Japan (before and after Pearl Harbor) was always better explained by the phenomenon of two empires expanding into the same place. Like the Romans and the Carthaginians fighting over the Mediterranean.