• Homestar440 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Imagine thinking US troops are a positive in any situation whatsoever

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Honestly, they mostly got in the way every place they hit the ground, save a few pacific islands. Nice trucks and oil tho

      • Civility [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        And honestly the world world have been a better place if they'd stayed out of Europe.

        The Comintern was already winning, all the US did was save capitalism.

        Hard to argue they didn't do good things in the Pacific though. Amerikkka bad and all but holy shit the Japanese Empire somehow managed to be so much worse.

        • GreenDream [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          US flat out interfered in Italian postwar elections altering the outcome which was just about to elect communists, started a civil war in Greece, and France was a very near run.

    • skeletorsass [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      It is clear that the false sentiment that the US is good and have good intention is so deeply installed in the west that it is inherent to most.

    • acealeam [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      in psychology, when a bad thing happens it is referred to as positive punishment