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2021-06-02 -Great Cultural Revolution

Surprising number of Americans 'not sure' if fighting Nazis was good, poll finds

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Posted by Fred 2021-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 WWI was fought to prevent the Germans from taking over our banks' investments in Europe.

Posted by Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-06-02 03:45|| 2021-06-02 03:45|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ A new chew toy

Posted by Frank G 2021-06-02 06:42|| 2021-06-02 06:42|| Front Page Top

#3 No demographic breakdown of those who disapprove?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-06-02 08:20|| 2021-06-02 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 They all seem to forget or didn't cared to find out. It was about a week after Pearl Harbor that the Germans and Italians declared war on the United States. It wasn't an option at that point. The east coast would become inflamed as shipping was sunk almost unmolested since the US Navy had no real anti-submarine program (after watching the British having to deal with it for over two years).

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-02 08:40|| 2021-06-02 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 When you don't teach history in schools anymore, you get dumb shit like this.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-06-02 09:44|| 2021-06-02 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 That's a weird take on history. FDR waged an undeclared war on Germany in the Atlantic. How about the Rueben Jones incident?

When German transports loaded up in Mexico, they'd be shadowed by an American ship broadcasting their location. Oh, it would be a pity if a British submarine showed up and sank it.

Once you learn how about the wars the US government foists on us, you never look at history the same. It's been this way since 1898. They have goals to achieve, money to make, and if hundreds of thousands of us have to die, well that's a price they're willing to pay.

Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-02 10:24|| 2021-06-02 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Reuben James you moron. If you are going to cite history in an effort to assert your comprehensive knowledge of the context of preWWII America, know the subject...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-06-02 11:03|| 2021-06-02 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 A spelling flame...really is that all you've got? This isn't a conspiracy theory and all the facts have been known for decades.

"U.S. Navy ships helped escort the convoys bringing Lend-Lease goods to England. The Royal Canadian Navy escorted the convoys to a point off Newfoundland. The U.S. Navy picked the convoys up there, escorted them out into the Atlantic, and handed them over to the British Royal Navy at a mid-ocean meeting point. The Navy performed these duties while the United States maintained its official neutrality. The pretext was that the Navy was helping to supply American troops stationed in Iceland. Merchant ships of other nations, such as Great Britain, were free to tag along, and these “hitchhikers” got U.S. Navy protection. This subterfuge was necessary because of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but it fooled few, least of all the German Navy.

On September 4, 1941, a German U- boat attacked the destroyer USS Greer (DD-145) as she steamed alone toward Iceland. The Greer dodged two torpedoes and counterattacked with depth charges. In response, Roosevelt ordered the Navy to shoot on sight any Axis warship found in waters “the protection of which is necessary for American defense.” The North Atlantic came within the scope of this order. Roosevelt’s logic was simple: “If you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”

The London Daily Mail predicted that the United States was “marching down the last mile to a declaration of war.”

Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-02 11:39|| 2021-06-02 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 ...because of isolationist sentiment in Congress

Which reflected the national mood. The Americans were all for taking on Japan for Pearl Harbor and swiftly followed by their invasion of the US territory of the Philippines. FDR and his administration were handed the gift by Hitler, cause FDR knew that until then, he couldn't get Congress to declare war on the other Axis partners no matter what 'games' he played at the edge of enticement.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-02 13:48|| 2021-06-02 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 It's the cold war we should be questioning since we spent a ton of money protecting Europe only to see Socialists popping up in large numbers everywhere a few decades later.

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-06-02 20:24|| 2021-06-02 20:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Europe attempted suicide twice in the first half of the 20th Century only to be bailed out by the US, at the price of our republic for doing it. A folly that only repeated Justinian's attempt to resurrect the Roman Empire. The West had fallen and he expended the resources of the East in a vain attempt to recover it, only to leave the East exhausted when the Islamic Conquest roared out of the Arabian peninsula.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-02 21:28|| 2021-06-02 21:28|| Front Page Top

#12
Remember this:
1. True Republicans are not 'Globalists'
2. America owes nothing to the world, we give freely.
3. The time to give has ended, you are on your own.

Posted by Count Galeazzo Crinese2942 2021-06-02 21:53|| 2021-06-02 21:53|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ This. New century. New foreign policy needed.

Fortress America + Alliance of the West/Judeo-CHristov not Peoples.

That is, not NATO but European Christendom. EXCLUDING Turkey and INCLUDING Israel.

Against The Rest. With alliances of convenience with Japan, India, various African nations etc.

Get rid of NATO. "An old bitch, gone in the teeth." - EH

Posted by Sheba Unoter4139 2021-06-02 22:55|| 2021-06-02 22:55|| Front Page Top

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