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Sad Baguette Noises (infosec.pub)

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wut? The US was still in the middle of economic disaster when WW2 began. What reason did the US have to enter Europe until Germany's allies attacked us?

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

The US was still in the middle of an economic disaster

So was everyone else, even Germany was starting to run into food shortages. If anything this would be a reason to go to war, as the only thing that ended up getting us out of the great depression was the war.

What reason did the US have to enter Europe until Germany's allies attacked us?

Stopping fascism, and the holocaust. We've started wars on way less justified grounds than that.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but you should know by now the US is a pile of shit for taking too long to get into any major conflict, but ALSO the US is a pile of shit for involving themselves in other countries conflicts.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

There is a huge difference between entering a war to help stop acts of aggression, versus going around supporting acts of aggression, helping to depose democratically elected leaders, or funding genocides.

I think you will find it is the last three that have attracted the real criticism over the years.