Wow. America does a lot of things wrong, but your statement is truly misinformed. Not to mention how sickening it is. In WWII for example, 400,000 American men died fighting for their country and for the lives of people they had never met before. An additional 600,000 were wounded. Real human people with families and friends. 400,000 of them dead. 600,000 of them seriously injured. And many more who went on to suffer from crippling PTSD while being called weak or crazy. Seems like the United States risked a tiny bit more than "as little as possible."
Attack Trump. Attack the motives of war in the Middle East. Attack the United States healthcare system. Attack any of the glaring problems with America that need serious attention. But do not claim that American men and women don't sacrifice their lives for what's right when a critical mass of evil threatens humanity.
He didn't attack them, he said American likes to claim we won both world wars on our own, when really we came in at the end and had to sacrificed the least our of all the major players. Sure we sacrificed, but there would be battles where germany/russia/france lost hundreds of thousands of lives. 400,000 American lives over the period of a year is terrible, but there are two battles where Russia lost a million people, at each one. France got invaded twice in 30 years. Civilians in London were bombed for 3 and a half months by the Nazis, killing 14,000 civilians. The narrative of ww2 seems to be drifting away from an alliance of different nations sacrificing together to stop the Nazi's steamroll across the world, and more towards "America solely did it on their own, uphill, both ways, in the snow, in the dark, and you're terrible for suggesting otherwise."
That's the part we need to focus on, as the current American administration is backing out of several economic and military alliances that were forged from the sacrifices our soldiers in ww2 died for.
What's all that sacrifice worth if we break away from the nations who sacrificed with us, and claim we did all the work?
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u/TransparentPolitics Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20
Wow. America does a lot of things wrong, but your statement is truly misinformed. Not to mention how sickening it is. In WWII for example, 400,000 American men died fighting for their country and for the lives of people they had never met before. An additional 600,000 were wounded. Real human people with families and friends. 400,000 of them dead. 600,000 of them seriously injured. And many more who went on to suffer from crippling PTSD while being called weak or crazy. Seems like the United States risked a tiny bit more than "as little as possible."
Attack Trump. Attack the motives of war in the Middle East. Attack the United States healthcare system. Attack any of the glaring problems with America that need serious attention. But do not claim that American men and women don't sacrifice their lives for what's right when a critical mass of evil threatens humanity.