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Germany is less surprising to me, given the history involved. Based on what I am looking into on Google Maps, however, it hardly seems to be a phenomenon confin
by mrex 4y ago
Germany is less surprising to me, given the history involved. Based on what I am looking into on Google Maps, however, it hardly seems to be a phenomenon confined to the US, and at least based on my spot checks it seems to be more common than not for public schools to display national flags.
- feet 4y ago>given the history involved. It's almost like other countries could learn from that history of extreme nationalism. The US especially
- mrex 4y agoWe taught the lesson on this, didn't we?
- feet 4y agoWhat does that mean, exactly? How many people alive today truly remember what it was like during WW2? I would argue that Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union is actually what did them in, not the US invasion
- mrex 4y agoYou really think that the USSR of the early 1940s could have fought that era's Germany and Japan at once? What about the comments by no less than Admiral Zhukov himself acknowledging that in his view, the USSR couldn't have defeated Germany without US assistance?
- feet 4y agoIt wasn't about pure fighting ability. Germany overextended their supply by moving into the USSR which weakened them But this is all beside the point of extreme nationalism being a bad thing
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- arlcode 4y agoFlags are probably somewhat common and I'd say it's a part of US culture to dial these things up to 11. (This is not meant as a sentiment.)