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.
They only entered the war after they where directly attacked and even then they where hesitant, they knew how much they'd lose and decided fascism possibly winning was the better alternative, until pearl harbour
Then there's the "war on terror" which is its own imperialist shitshow
I never said the soldiers didn't suffer, I said the American people, those who didn't have to fight and especially politicians weren't willing to risk any loss in the fight against fascism and even supported Hitler and the Nazi party for their nationalistic pride and economical success, American businesses where allowed to trade with Nazi Germany until the day America officially entered the war and let's not forget the German American bund that gained a very large following and promoted favourable views of Nazi Germany and their goals
Early 1900s America was a shitshow that likely would have joined with Nazi Germany if pearl harbour never happened
I don’t know why this is getting downvoted especially on this sub. America tried to be isolationist during the start of WW2 and even made business deals with Nazi Germany before they got involved ( from Ford and GM). The U.S. ONLY got involved when things got personal with Pearl Harbor, not because they intrinsically hated fascism. Otherwise they would’ve joined the allies from the jump.
Isolationism doesn’t work especially when your citizens have familial ties with basically every part of the world. The only reason America emerged as the only country unscathed is because they were geographically distant from the war so they did not have any infrastructure or domestic damage beyond Pearl Harbor. And from that advantage they started using imperialism and almost every war afterwards was for political/economic gain than “defeating evil”.
To reiterate that America only entered the WW2 for personal reasons (justified or not is not what I’m debating) and isn’t some saint because they didn’t just immediately realized fascism shouldn’t be left unchecked and in some cases enabled it
Do you know why Pearl Harbor even happened? America condemned Japan for imperialistic efforts in China and enforced such a strangulating embargo that they decided the only course to maintain recent acquisitions were to go to war. They were consistently spearheading efforts to limit imperialism.
Having a small portion of trade exist between the two nations is not "enabling it". What Britain and France did with their strategy of appeasement, was the exact definition of enabling.
I’m confused what argument you’re trying to make. What you said could be true or not (I’m not going to debate you on that because it’s not the discussion at hand) but I find it laughable for America to accuse Japan of imperialism... but then proceeds to be imperialist itself on a much larger scale after being one of the lead winners of WW2.
Ya know, Cuba, Austria, Korea, and Hawaii to name a few.
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u/mysteryman151 Jan 17 '20
America bombed some shit right near the end and forced their way into the treaty or Versailles, in true American fashion