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where the pax is that one there she is
one of the dumbest girls you will ever
meet
that little one she's totally rich
because her dad invented
and evil takes a human form in general
oh be fooled
because she may seem like your typical
selfish backstabbing slut-based hoe bag
but in reality
she is so much more than that she's the
queen bee
the star those other two are just her
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but more on that later after large-scale
tragic events people
often feel the need to assign meaning to
what just happened whether big or small
people try to make sense of senseless
violence
and the biggest things this is done to
are wars world war ii was the single
deadliest conflict in human history with
between 50 and 80 million people
dying depending on where you look and of
course in the 70 plus years since it has
ended we collectively have tried to
figure out what it was all about and
there have been quite a few theories
that people have brought forth
the first of these is the idea of the
good war the whole stephen ambrose tom
brokaw thing
that the democratic powers that be rose
up against the forces of totalitarianism
for the betterment of the world and that
the american rifle squad made up of the
greatest generation
landed in normandy on june 6th and ended
hitler's third reich
another idea is that of human rights
that after world war ii
we as a species will no longer tolerate
the whole scale execution of groups of
people or the killing of civilians
caught in the center via bombings or
terror tactics as laid out in many
decrees both formal and informal after
the war
or lastly just the idea that technology
has gotten too advanced
and that war is no longer worth what it
may bring for the amount of lives that
can be so easily cut short in the
process
the age-old idea that the last war was
too costly but with world war ii's large
figures and statistics for losses
that this time the lesson was really
learned however i don't think these
common perceptions of the meaning of the
war are necessarily true
or if they are that the lesson really
hasn't been learned regarding the good
war myth the ally doing most of the
heavy lifting was the soviet union
killing 8 out of every 11 german
soldiers lost in the war by the time the
american rifle squad got to france the
war was essentially over already it was
only a matter of time
not to negate the contributions by the
united states soldiers but the soviets
are really the ones who took down the
third reich i can't wait for all the len
lease comments that'll be fun
and i bring this up when talking about
the good war theory because this fact
totally disproves it
the soviet union was a completely
totalitarian power
that would occupy and control eastern
europe for almost the next 50 years
meaning this war wasn't really
totalitarian versus democratic is a lot
more complicated than that
the second point is not so much wrong as
it has not been followed
after world war ii there were multiple
cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing
that the west and nato pretty much just
shrugged at
also many of the sentiments of human
rights due to many of the instances of
killing civilians a lot of which were
done through bombing
were completely ignored in the cold war
north vietnam and laos are definitely
the outstanding examples of this
so clearly that lesson although present
was not learned and lastly we have the
age-old takeaway of stopping the
fighting
although probably closest to the truth
it has not been heated either although
we are in a period referred to as the
long piece with worldwide violence at a
historic low
i wouldn't really call this a lesson
learned from world war ii more or less
and learn from the fact that we can
destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons
as this should have been the takeaway
from world war one and though it was for
a little bit
20 years later humanity decided oh that
was nice i think we'll have a bit more
of that in essence humans are always
going to be fighting each other and no
matter how you feel after the last war
a few years later we're going to be
ready to do it again we just have a
physical check stopping that now instead
of a moral one which will
with time always fade away now i believe
the real lesson of world war
ii is a bit more sinister and not really
one of pacifism like we think the lesson
of a war would be
as the real lesson of world war ii is
how to fight coalition warfare and
really how to fight a total war
because world war ii provides excellent
examples of how
and how not to do this within the same
conflict with the allies and the axis
now before i go further i will be the
very first person to admit the allies
were flawed
there were ups and downs between all the
leaders stalin didn't trust the
americans or the british with them
dragging their feet to open up a second
front
or the manipulation between roosevelt
and churchill for post-war interest and
colonial interests that was fairly
common
the british as the war went on did
really become disgruntled at playing
second fiddle to the americans which i
think is summed up perfectly by this
quote from harold mcmillan
we my dear crossman are greeks
in this american empire you will find
the americans much as the greeks found
the romans
great big vulgar bustling people more
vigorous than we
are and also more idle with more
unspoiled virtues
but also more corrupt i mean that's
pretty passive aggressive
if you want more details about this
check out this lecture by mark stoller
but for all these flaws of which you
could name many many more
the allies did a host of things
correctly against all odds of these
ideological disagreements
the central pillar of all this was the
idea of the division of labor
the allies were very good at playing to
their strengths and being in touch with
their reality on the ground
to put it in the most basic of terms the
soviets had the manpower the british had
the air force and the americans had the
factories the western power was one of
the soviets to kill german soldiers
and to do that the soviet side of the
alliance focused heavily on ground
operations and keeping the vermont tied
up in the east
the soviets didn't bother with
long-range bombers or naval operations
they fought the germans where they were
at and in return the americans provided
supplies
and the british bombed the german
factories and marshaling areas and took
care of the kriegsmarine at the sea
and the result of all this was a
surrounding and strangling of the axis
powers in europe
there was also a great collaboration on
the intelligence and technological side
of the war
in 1939 polish intelligence cracked
enigma code 1.0
and gave it to the french of the british
or later on doctor strange broke enigma
code 2.0
and proceeded to read german
communications for the remainder of the
war
sharing that information with the
soviets whenever necessary notably
before the cursed offensive
there was also a large amount of
collaborating going on and sharing of
technology most prominently between the
british and the americans
i think two of the best moments that
summed this up are when the british put
a merlin engine into the p-51
an american plane accidentally making
one of the best fighters of the war
through a large collaborative effort
because it was what was needed and one
of the first consignments of sherman
tanks being sent to north africa when
the british were desperate during the
battle of el alamein in a move that was
very unpopular on fdr's part but was
exactly what was needed in the grand
scheme of winning the war putting aside
the politics that would come with taking
away material from the us army to train
and fight with to address the immediate
situation that was at hand
not losing sight that the goal was to
win the war when it counted the allies
were able to put aside their egos and
collaborate in a way that was best for
the effort now let's juxtapose this with
the axis alliance
okay what is it regina says everyone
hates you because you're such a [ __ ]
she said that you didn't hear it from me
the first thing you need to understand
about the axes
is that they were characterized by lying
and only trusted each other about how
far as they could throw each other
and there are quite a few examples of
this countiano wrote about how hitler
purposefully invaded questions about his
intentions in the east to which the
italians responded by keeping their
intentions for greece deliberately vague
this resulted in the germans needing to
bail out the italian invasion of greece
supposedly forwarding hitler's plans for
the date for operation barbarossa this
mistrust continued between the germans
and japanese
who completely neglected each other in
their time of need against a common
enemy
in 1939 the germans signed a
non-aggression pact with the soviets and
collaborated with them to take over
poland
right as the japanese were fighting a
very rough border war with the soviets
in mongolia two years later as the
germans were fighting the soviets in
western russia
the japanese do the exact same thing
back and sign a non-aggression pact with
the soviet union
freeing up troops for the defense of
moscow in december and it's not even so
much that the two powers are trying to
do things to screw each other over they
just have their own goals in mind and
completely ignore the big picture of
what they could both
benefit from something that you cannot
do when you're working together in an
alliance
along with this there's virtually no
sharing of technology outside of some
training programs between the two
countries and some tanks bought by the
japanese at one point
in fact for a good amount of time before
the axis pack was signed
germany's military had a better working
relationship with the chinese military
japan's prominent enemy throughout most
of the war in the form of military
attaches and advisors helping the
chinese army train and modernize
in fact if you didn't know that the axis
alliance existed
there are many scenarios where you would
think the big three in it were actively
trying to undermine each other
and this is absolutely not the way you
take on three of the four biggest
economies at once
you're just asking to fail if the
technological material and numerical
advantages are not on your side
you need to make use of other potential
advantages you may have
and due to the mistrust between the
powers they not only did not do this
but oftentimes actively worked against
it whether they were aware of it or not
now i know i'm generalizing and i know
there are other things you can point to
that show not how clean cut all of this
was
and i completely agree with you that's
present in every aspect of history
and after the war the alliance did fall
apart with the eastern and western blocs
forming but this is hardly uncommon the
vast majority of the time once a
conflict is over
the alliance falls apart because the
common enemy has been dealt with
but as the war was raging the three
powers that only had being attacked by a
common enemy
in common put aside not all but a fair
amount of their differences
in relation to this common goal becoming
the poster child for what an alliance
should be in an imperfect
world keeping the end goal in mind and
working out some of the smaller details
later
knowing what is a priority in the given
scenario and although the soviets and
western powers became bitter rivals
the allies were hugely successful in
what they set out to achieve
and did it in the most practical way
they could have in a far cry from the
disaster that the axis pact ended up
being
and it's because of this that although
it is somewhat the opposite of the
conclusion you would think to draw from
something so destructive
ironically the lesson of the war is how
you fight a war
utilizing the powers of your allies to
their fullest extent putting aside
personal matters with the aim of ending
the conflict as quickly as you can
through the use of great coordination
and leaning on each other's strengths
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