His Excellency MoebiusLord wrote:
Kavekk the Ludicrous wrote:
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The explosion of the U.S. economy & technological innovation in the United States in the second half of the 20th century coupled with the fact that we basically got rid of all of the really insidious threats to world peace, are the reasons that your lives outside this country are so peachy keen. You're welcome and f'uck off.
Considering world peace doesn't actually exist, I'm not sure it can be threatened in the first place. One might more accurately say the USA removed all the especially problematic barriers to world peace. Not
entirely accurately, of course, because its not entirely true.
Germany - cowed.
Japan - broken.
The Soviet Union - LOLed.
World Wars since we demonstrated the will to f'uck sh;t up? 0
You're welcome.
So, what, America was just half-arsing the first one? I dare say I'd be disinclined to offer any thanks, in that case.
Really, though, assigning America the bulk of the credit for Germany's defeat is historically untenable. Apart from that, of course, one might note that the USA left several large threats to world peace in place - itself, for example.