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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

Americans don't want to fight for their country anymore

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Americans don't want to fight for their country anymore

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago
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The military is struggling to recruit, amid an apparent disconnect with the younger generation. But it is a complex picture.
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    After Germany declared war on them? They didn’t defeat them out of good will, in fact, I’d say America and South Africa were the closest things to Nazi Germany outside of the Reich

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      Really? Closer than Russia which actually did invade its neighbors? Go back to lemmygrad.

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        Should I remind you of the land the USA originally had and what they did to the people who lived in the lands they conquered?

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          You can if you want to pretend that Russia didn’t do the same thing and that it somehow makes the comparison better for you!

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            It did, but the natives are more than 1% of the Russian population

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      Is it good to beat the shit out of the school bully after he picks a fight with you so he learns to stop picking fights with people? I would say so.

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        Not if you’re quite similar to that bully

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          There’s a difference between being a good country and being a global force for good. In helping to defeat the Nazis, the U.S. was a global force for good regardless of what else they did, had done or will do. The same with Stalinist Russia.

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            And then they took all the top scientists from Germany and Japan, who were guilty of crimes against humanity, and made them high ups in the American government

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            Not really

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              Bad countries can’t do good things?

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                If they did they’d be good countries

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                  So it was bad to defeat the Nazis and the Confederates?

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                    Vultures can kill each other

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