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the US not only went through that relatively unscathed Well, sure, if you ignore the over 400,000 combat dead... which was more than double France's losses, an
by masonic 7y ago
the US not only went through that relatively unscathed
Well, sure, if you ignore the over 400,000 combat dead... which was more than double France's losses, and also greater than England's.
Bear in mind that's mostly young men who never saw their peak earnings years, so consider their economic impact as well.
- krapp 7y agorelatively unscathed. The rest of the world had their cities burned to the ground, and their infrastructures and economies destroyed. Russia lost millions of people. Japan was victim to the only atomic bombs thus far used in warfare. What the US went through, comparatively, while not nothing, was still a cakewalk.