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There is a lot of Hollywood thinking in the American understanding of the second world war. That America somehow won the war because they were good and had god
by throwaway4good 6y ago
There is a lot of Hollywood thinking in the American understanding of the second world war. That America somehow won the war because they were good and had god on their side.
However everyone goes into war thinking they have god on their side. Reality is that wars are won by having resources and being nasty.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> That America somehow won the war because they were good That's demonstrably true: 1) the Allies worked together and won, and the Axis didn't and lost. Britain and the US shared advanced technology transparently, while the enemy was limited. 2) the US was isolationist until attacked by Japan. 3) Japan refused to follow the Geneva Convention, even making a law that captured airmen were to be executed (and half were, while 1% died in German captivity.) The leftist narrative that the US is evil is simply false.
- wildermuthn 6y agoActually, the military teaches its soldiers and officers that war is won by making the other side surrender, not by being nasty. The greatest victory is one where they surrender without a single battle being waged (pretty sure that’s in the Art of War). To that point, the enemy will only surrender if they know you will accept their surrender and treat them decently rather than torturing and/or killing them. War-crimes make it harder to win wars by convincing the enemy they have nothing to lose,
- throwaway4good 6y agoIt's just reading about the firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden or the nuclear attacks on Hiroshimi and Nagasaki gives a kind of different vibe ...