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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back...English talking about Russia and Ukraine like they don't still occupy most of Wales

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back ….English talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Cornwall.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back ….Wessex dudes talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Mercia.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I love this logic.

If we follow it, then nobody should have stood up to Hitler, because it would mean allying with the racist US and imperial Britain.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Because when other countries "stood up" to Hitler it was for moral reasons 🤡

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

LMFAO this is what happens when you get "education" under a western regime. The racist US and imperial Britain were completely and utterly irrelevant to defeating Hitler. In fact, what they actually accomplished was to ensure that the horrors of capitalism would continue to this day. With the US, it would have been USSR that liberated all of Europe from both the nazis and capitalist oppression.

Don't take my word for it though. Here's what a book produced by US military has to say on the subject.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Because the US and UK did nothing else during the war except lend-lease of course. The bombing of German industry, blockades of their supply lines, the Africa-campaigns, extensive intelligence operations, no all of that definitely did nothing and didn't contribute to the war effort at all.

It's likely the Allies would have won the war without the US involved, though it's estimated it would have taken much longer. Without UK involvement, it's more probable that the Germans could have achieved a victory, though perhaps not a total capitulation of the Soviets. Without a western front to guard as heavily, they would probably have taken Moscow by the end of 41 (irl they were 20 miles out). Japan would also have a much freeer reign in the pacific theatre.

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[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

This. The Russians did all the work and the US and UK come and take the credit

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How many people a month were dying because of the Nazis?

I love how you ignore those lives as meaningless.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (28 children)

Then we might as well ask how many people a months has US led world order killed since WW2 ended.

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[–] Contemporarium@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They talk shit on every country as if they live in a utopia which is genuinely hilarious

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

I want to know who thinks we live in a utopia.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Don't forget the Falklands.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never heard of them. Maybe you mean the Malvinas.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Quite right you are. So I did.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

the french talking about russia and ukraine

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

As it happens you don't actually have to be a social chauvinist for the country in which you reside.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 1 week ago

The other day I was thinking about tensions that exist in part because of British-drawn borders. Israel-Palestina, India-Pakistan. Can't believe I forgot NI.

[–] fadhl3y@lemmy.one 5 points 1 week ago

If Northern Ireland decided to reunite with the rest of Ireland it would solve so many problems... good luck trying to convince the Northern Irish of that.

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