• PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    “So, since might makes right in your ideology, you’re going to admit that democracy and tolerance is the superior form of governance?”

    “No, I’m actually just going to sulk here and spread Lost Cause style myths about how the Wehrmacht Wasn’t That Bad™”

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    2 days ago

    Who did they decide to go to war with? The world.

    So you’d think that would last all of about 5 seconds. But it was actually close.

    • Seeders@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      51·
      1 day ago

      They should have studied history and what happens when you invade Russia. In the fucking winter. Instead they were more concerned with finding magical artifacts.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.world
    67·
    2 days ago

    Same with the confederacy:

    • lasted just 4 years
    • lost a war against the USA

    Yet their flags are waived around with pride 250+ years later. How perfectly normal

    • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, certain people can only feel superior to others to cover up for inferiority within themselves.

  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    1 day ago

    > wasn’t even the last one standing on the losing side either.

    Japanese people are better than the master race?

    • UwUhugger@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      U mean a druggy?

      Everyone used to consume inorbitant amounts of hard drugs! Thats the charm of the time!

      Or like are you to implying the narrative of nazi generals? That the war would have been won tups if Hitler didn’t meddle? ‘Cause thats also not true! The war rememtos are complete lies meant to convince nato to hire them as advisers, which they would have anyways. If things were to shit the fan with the ussr then they wanted the german militia…

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 days ago

    If the Japanese hadn’t attacked Pearl Harbour the Axis powers would have won the war. The addition of American troops in the western front was the beginning of the end for them.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 day ago

      If Germany hadn’t turned on the Russians it would have won the war. If they’d managed to get access to the French Navy after invading France, they probably would have won the war.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      The European World Wars only produced losers. WW1 signaled the beginning of the end of the British Empire, the escalated decline of the French Empire, and the total collapse of the Russian Empire. WW2 obliterated a century of industrial development and squandered a generation of young people on a pointless pissing contest, only to hand the continent to a pair of foreign superpowers.

      The US came out ahead in both wars primarily because they were the last to join and the only ones to escape virtually unscathed.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          We exported fascism into Europe initially. America has a long and horrible history of fascism, straight back to the colonial era. By the early 20th century, guys like Henry Ford were quite literally churning out the textbook definition of antisemitism (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) and shipping it all across the Old World, to stock the furnace of racial animus and ramp the continent up into a second world war.

          Then we harvested the remnants of fascism back into our own country after German Nazism failed. The open-borders policy extended to German military and science officers was a shocking reversal relative to our naked hostility towards Jewish refugees and other European dissidents in the run up to the wars.

          We weren’t destroyed by fascism. We were its wellspring. We sent it out abroad, like the seeds of an evil dandelion, and then we reaped what we’d sown when those seeds blossomed.