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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back...English talking about Russia and Ukraine like they don't still occupy most of Wales

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back ….English talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Cornwall.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends how far you want to keep going back ….Wessex dudes talking about Russia and Ukraine like we don’t still occupy all of Mercia.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love this logic.

If we follow it, then nobody should have stood up to Hitler, because it would mean allying with the racist US and imperial Britain.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because when other countries "stood up" to Hitler it was for moral reasons 🤡

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (46 children)

LMFAO this is what happens when you get "education" under a western regime. The racist US and imperial Britain were completely and utterly irrelevant to defeating Hitler. In fact, what they actually accomplished was to ensure that the horrors of capitalism would continue to this day. With the US, it would have been USSR that liberated all of Europe from both the nazis and capitalist oppression.

Don't take my word for it though. Here's what a book produced by US military has to say on the subject.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Because the US and UK did nothing else during the war except lend-lease of course. The bombing of German industry, blockades of their supply lines, the Africa-campaigns, extensive intelligence operations, no all of that definitely did nothing and didn't contribute to the war effort at all.

It's likely the Allies would have won the war without the US involved, though it's estimated it would have taken much longer. Without UK involvement, it's more probable that the Germans could have achieved a victory, though perhaps not a total capitulation of the Soviets. Without a western front to guard as heavily, they would probably have taken Moscow by the end of 41 (irl they were 20 miles out). Japan would also have a much freeer reign in the pacific theatre.

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[–] Contemporarium@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They talk shit on every country as if they live in a utopia which is genuinely hilarious

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I want to know who thinks we live in a utopia.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Don't forget the Falklands.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never heard of them. Maybe you mean the Malvinas.

[–] revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Quite right you are. So I did.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

the french talking about russia and ukraine

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 1 week ago

The other day I was thinking about tensions that exist in part because of British-drawn borders. Israel-Palestina, India-Pakistan. Can't believe I forgot NI.

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

As it happens you don't actually have to be a social chauvinist for the country in which you reside.

[–] fadhl3y@lemmy.one 5 points 1 week ago

If Northern Ireland decided to reunite with the rest of Ireland it would solve so many problems... good luck trying to convince the Northern Irish of that.

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