Seriously, every American i meet at some point bring up WW2. It's always "Haha, we saved your guys ass" or "You'd all be speaking German". Do they only bring it up around euros? Unrelated I remember when Bin Laden died and this American exchange student came in so happy and just shouted "We finally fuckin' got him".
Why do Americans always bring up WW2?
Aaron Morris
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Ryder Martin
> I remember when Bin Laden died and this American exchange student came in so happy and just shouted "We finally fuckin' got him"
Why are they like this ?
Gabriel Davis
Americans are obsessed with war. For them it's all about killing and destroying, it makes them feel powerful. This mentality explains all the mass shootings.
Adrian Garcia
I'm not sure, we were 16 and no one knew what the fuck he was talking about. He got bullied actually. It wouldn't surprise me if that year in England was the worst in his life.
Owen Fisher
War is the essence of their lives, yet almost none of them have lived through an actual war, so they don't know what it's really like.
Christian Lee
Jose Stewart
Good. He should've of learned their cultural nuances by then
Jose Fisher
Easton Campbell
>eurofags will never know the joy of that evening right at the beginning of May when I saw Osama got shot in the head on the Yahoo News homepage
it was pretty based dezu, dont be a pussy
Jeremiah Brown
i still hope for the day hollywood makes films about the Italian campaign
there were fierce fightings there, probably even more than the island hopping hide and seek in the pacific
but I guess what they say is true, bombing abbeys and not completely stomping the enemies doesn't make for good propaganda
Jacob Ramirez
>should've of
Holy shit lmao
Ryder Hernandez
yuros like to give bantz but can't take it. Color me surprised.
Isaiah Baker
After the Vietnam War, the US had an identity crisis over its character after such a traumatic political and socially damaging conflict. So people starting looking back to World War II to shape a new identity of America as the good cowboy as the standard, with the Vietnam War being the tragic deviation from that standard.
As a consequence it formed a new mindset in which all of America's problems could and necessarily should be solved with force.
Just look at Reagan's violent presidency.
In parallel and fueling this WWII nostolgia was a sleu of WWII books, novels, movies, and later video games celebrating the US's role in the Second World War. The conflict is attractive because it provides a time and image of America as unquestionably the "good guys," in contrast to the "bad guy" it played in Southeast Asia.
Pic is written by a WWII vet and worth a coronavirus read if you are interested.
Matthew Harris
America will never let go of the past. You think WW2 is bad, remember how they never let go of 9/11 and think that people around the world still carea for that.
Cameron Mitchell
I'll put it on my list, thanks
Jaxson Garcia
>Just look at Reagan's violent presidency
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Christopher Sanchez
they even say to Finns "without us you'd be speaking russian" even tho we are not even in NATO
Andrew Moore
Sounds like a good read, Thanks.
Joshua Gray
I should clarify that the book mostly focuses on demythologizing common misconceptions Americans have about WWII because he believes these myths have constructed a dangerous lens by which the US sees the world.
He talks about the Vietnam stuff for maybe 1-2 pages in the introduction. I got around halfway through the book before my grad studies picked back up again so I might be wrong, though.
Gabriel Cook
It's not just WW2 but military in general.
Storytime:
I'm German but grew up here. Went to school with a couple of Balkan guys and in 11th grade we also got American exchange student.
We would often banter about our nationalities, but whenever he joined he would only say something related to the military like "we bombed [city], but you guys deserved it, right? Haha". Everybody got quickly tired of this and started to respond by yelling "RICEFARMER" that would shut him up. Eventually he no longer talked to most of our class.
Then one day he got into a heated argument with our Serbs (1 guy, 2 girls) to which he started to rant that the USA should have annihilated Serbia back then. The Serb guy stood up and beat the shit out of him. Later the American asked our Albanians why they didn't help him since they hated Serbs too, but they just told him that he was an idiot and deserved what he got.
Dominic Wilson
>every American i meet at some point bring up WW2
no they don't
Luis Lewis
>and then everybody clapped
Carter Powell
>Do they only bring it up around euros?
No we bring it up to the Japanese every chance we get too, and even in American politics you will constantly hear comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis from all sides.
Regarding Bin Laden, he was held responsible for an attack on American soil that leveled buildings and killed 3,000 Americans, of course everyone knew him and wanted him dead.
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Jeremiah Peterson
Because they are obsessed with lies, they don't want us to praise the real heroes of WW2.
Christian Parker
>"no"
Austin Anderson
revisionist slime, they wanted to make a union with France and the eternal anglo against the nazis.
But that was against the ideals of the ruling classes, which is exactly why so many U.S. companies supported hitler so he could weaken the USSR (and is exactly what happened).
Stalin made a pact with Hitler because he didn't want a war.
Luis Torres
Years of brainwashing, they start being brainwashed in the yearly years of formal ed
North Korea tier
Anthony Anderson
No why would we?
Nicholas Wright
Europe used to be the same when it was a continent of relevancy. Might makes right.
Sometimes I get sad seeing how effete the modern European man is, not at all different from the worst of our Urbanites with their idealistic foolishness about pacifism and solving everything with UN resolutions.
Samuel Gray
>Fight on the side of the three most evil Empires in human history
>good guys
Dominic Anderson
>Raped half of Europe with commietardism
>Heroes
And this is why you will never be a country, France’s shortcut
Jacob Allen
>Stalin made a pact with Hitler because he didn't want a war.
Care to explain this then?
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Wyatt Martinez
>Stealing memes because once again the left can’t meme
Imagine my shock
Camden Reed
Because America is run by jews and ww2 is constantly force-fed to every American from birth to death.