• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”

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    During WW1 there was a lot of anti-German propaganda. After the war it turned out that German troops had behaved like every other army. When the Nazis came to power many Americans assumed that the stories about them were the same old, same old.

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      The dangers of propaganda. It’s one of the reasons Allied Intelligence in WW2 opted to tell the truth, or at least more of it, since the self-discrediting propaganda in WW1 eventually became counter-productive.

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      I believe they’re drawing a parallel between anti-war sentiment in WWII and current events in Ukraine. I’m not sure who the #1 enemy would be, though; maybe that’s subjective.

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    Hey now… There’s a really good reason for fighting in the desert for the past century.

    There’s money in it!

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    If we send the ones from the bottom over to do the work of the top, I think we might get somewhere with both issues.

    Just need a time machine…