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American intervention in other genocides (e.g. Kosovo) led to genocide being kicked into high gear. Arguably it did in WW2 as well. The Nazis originally planne
by pydry 5y ago
American intervention in other genocides (e.g. Kosovo) led to genocide being kicked into high gear.
Arguably it did in WW2 as well. The Nazis originally planned to dump the Jews in Africa, not kill them. The plans for the Nazis industrial slaughter were approved shortly after the US entered the war and the Nazis were slowly being boxed in.
The fact that Germany reacted to the US entering the war with industrial slaughter doesnt mean that the US was wrong to go to war of course, but it underscores the fact that by default military intervention makes everything worse - especially for the most vulnerable.
- danaris 5y ago"We should let genocides happen, because if we try to make them stop, the people committing them panic and realize they will have to speed up to be able to kill as many people as they want to" is not the gotcha argument you think it is.
- pydry 5y agoIf that's what you thought my argument was then my argument isnt the argument you think it is.
- zozbot234 5y agoThis is quite wrong. To the best of our knowledge (it's hard to be sure about this, so there is some genuine controversy still) the industrial slaughter of Jews was meant to double as a convenient 'test run' for Generalplan Ost, viz. the industrial slaughter of practically everyone in the 'East' that the Nazis were then seeking to conquer as their projected 'Lebensraum'. The Nazis were far more evil than anyone would have expected knowing about the Holocaust alone.