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Well, what was the alternative during WWII? Defeating Nazi Germany for instance. Which is what happened. But surely not doing business with it during the war, t

by shmerl 4y ago

Well, what was the alternative during WWII? Defeating Nazi Germany for instance. Which is what happened. But surely not doing business with it during the war, that's self explanatory.

AnonymousPlanet 4y ago
And how is Europe commiting collective suicide going to defeat Russia? Must be fun looking in at all this from the sidelines.
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago
  I'm an european, and I never understood this... We sent our soldiers to every shithole america decided to "bring democracy to", but now, ukraine has become so important, that we are willing to destroy our own economy and "passively fight" until the "last dead ukranian", to achieve what exactly?
  - int_19h 4y ago
    Where would you draw the line? Moldova? Baltic countries? Poland? Everyone for themselves?
    - ajsnigrutin 4y ago
      Where did we draw the line with USA?
      - shmerl 4y ago
        In Pearl Harbor. It was later than it could be obviously.
  - likecarter 4y ago
    His aspirations are much larger than Ukraine.
difosfor 4y ago
I think you're underestimating our dependency on energy in the modern world. It might be easier to convince us to just go ahead and start WW3, but we aren't going to do that, sorry. I hope we can find some way out of this that will be less harmful. What that will be I suppose only time will tell.
permo-w 4y ago
>doing business with [Nazi Germany] during the war it is often forgotten that this is exactly what the US did for the first 2-3 years of the war. Germany swallowed up the wealth of Europe. Britain had already swallowed up the wealth of a quarter of the world. the US swallowed up both of their wealth and ended the war with 2/3 of the world's gold this is a simplification, but it's also huge overarching story of WW2 that is often missed. people know the US and Russia became the world's two superpowers, but there's very little attention paid as to how the US came to be one of them

by shmerl 4y ago

Well, what was the alternative during WWII? Defeating Nazi Germany for instance. Which is what happened. But surely not doing business with it during the war, that's self explanatory.

AnonymousPlanet 4y ago

And how is Europe commiting collective suicide going to defeat Russia? Must be fun looking in at all this from the sidelines.

ajsnigrutin 4y ago
I'm an european, and I never understood this... We sent our soldiers to every shithole america decided to "bring democracy to", but now, ukraine has become so important, that we are willing to destroy our own economy and "passively fight" until the "last dead ukranian", to achieve what exactly?
- int_19h 4y ago
  Where would you draw the line? Moldova? Baltic countries? Poland? Everyone for themselves?
  - ajsnigrutin 4y ago
    Where did we draw the line with USA?
    - shmerl 4y ago
      In Pearl Harbor. It was later than it could be obviously.
- likecarter 4y ago
  His aspirations are much larger than Ukraine.

difosfor 4y ago

I think you're underestimating our dependency on energy in the modern world. It might be easier to convince us to just go ahead and start WW3, but we aren't going to do that, sorry. I hope we can find some way out of this that will be less harmful. What that will be I suppose only time will tell.

permo-w 4y ago

>doing business with [Nazi Germany] during the war it is often forgotten that this is exactly what the US did for the first 2-3 years of the war. Germany swallowed up the wealth of Europe. Britain had already swallowed up the wealth of a quarter of the world. the US swallowed up both of their wealth and ended the war with 2/3 of the world's gold this is a simplification, but it's also huge overarching story of WW2 that is often missed. people know the US and Russia became the world's two superpowers, but there's very little attention paid as to how the US came to be one of them