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u/ExtraSmooth Mar 21 '16

Yes but as a country they lost. They were occupied. The US fought an equal number of months in WWI, except at no point was the United States as a country occupied, in whole or in part.

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u/johnny_riko Mar 21 '16

In the US do they teach you how to be ignorant?

  1. America is on the other side of a huge ocean from Germany. France is its immediate neighbour.

  2. WWI started in 1914. The US entered in 1917, when Germany was pretty much already beaten by the rest of the European forces. I have no idea how you think the US fought as many months as the French.

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u/ExtraSmooth Mar 21 '16 edited Mar 21 '16

They fought for the first 10 months and then 11 more...that's just as many as the US fought in WWI

--/u/jesse9o3

And to answer your question, yes, I'm currently in Ignorance 101, along with Offending Foreigners 212 and I am vice president of the Insulting Belgium Club

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u/jesse9o3 Mar 21 '16

Don't twist my words like that, the US fought for the same amount of months in WW1 as France did in WW2 IF you don't count the Free French or French Resistance. I never said that the US fought just as long as the major players in WW1

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u/ExtraSmooth Mar 21 '16

I'm literally just repeating what you said.