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The US decision to enter the war was independent of (and I think before?) the extermination camps, purely decided by Germany declaring war on the US. The pract
by pjc50 6mo ago
The US decision to enter the war was independent of (and I think before?) the extermination camps, purely decided by Germany declaring war on the US.
The practice of interning a large number of people in camps without access to legal process .. well, which side of the Atlantic has more of that at the moment?
- lostlogin 6mo agoThe US are also supporting some rather dubious actions in Gaza and Lebanon.
- traderj0e 6mo agoThis is a valid criticism. We're not only enabling war crimes but also going totally against our own interests. UK and EU are supporting it too, but not nearly as much as the US. And UK more than EU.
- renewiltord 6mo ago[flagged]
- traderj0e 6mo agoEU has even larger migrant camps, mainly on the eastern side like in Greece. They're not citizens, so they don't get the same legal rights. The rest were pushed away at gunpoint. US has been accepting far more migrants, both legal and illegal, than the EU. There are 14M illegal immigrants steadily living in the US, imagine that over there. The difference is nobody holds the EU to US standards, cause that would be "punching down," but I don't mind doing it. Just like when the US cuts research funding, people get mad and say the EU should take those researchers, but turns out the EU won't pay them either. So I don't care what EU citizens say about American issues, actions speak louder than words.
- traderj0e 6mo agoOh and neither one is comparable to actual internment camps because people are free to leave back into their own countries.