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43 points OutOfHere | 5 comments | 05 Jul 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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java-man ◴[05 Jul 25 20:22 UTC] No.44475260[source]▶
We are witnessing gradual destruction of the United States. Unfortunately, nothing will change before the country is in ruins, much like Germany and Japan in 1945.
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1. nxobject ◴[05 Jul 25 21:27 UTC] No.44475688[source]▶
Ironically, much of the ascent of America after WWII had to do with being the only intact industrial power, which we then plowed into science and technology research. It’s a pity we don’t recognize that in our historical narratives - rather than just “we did the right thing during World War II”.
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2. JumpCrisscross ◴[06 Jul 25 05:57 UTC] No.44478181[source]▶
> rather than just “we did the right thing during World War II”

This is now a debated point in MAGA!

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3. ThrowOregonAway ◴[06 Jul 25 12:30 UTC] No.44480212[source]▶
Not really, most Republicans now realize we should have stayed out of WWII in Europe. Hitler would have crushed the USSR and hundreds of millions of lives would have been saved.
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4. ben_w ◴[06 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44482112{3}[source]▶
Staying out would not have been sufficient to ensure the defeat of Stalin, but it would definitely have meant someone besides the USA got the first nuke, and also meant that the USA wasn't defending its interests in the Pacific.

After the war, the British Empire (under either the British or the Axis depending on how that fight went) may well have been turned against you directly as a way to recoup losses, and regardless of which of Axis or USSR (or the British) won, someone would have gotten the magnetron and the rockets and the nuclear explosives, and it wouldn't have been the USA.

5. JumpCrisscross ◴[06 Jul 25 17:19 UTC] No.44482452{3}[source]▶
Right, this nonsense. Whitewashing Holocaust apologist with hypotheticals about Hitler’s Europe about as credible as their budget projections.