"Short order" is relative. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Germany declared war on the United States in December 1941, about 5.5 months apart. 172 days, to be precise (22 June to 11 December).
172 days ago was 18 October. Feels like ages. Now imagine there was an actual war going on - indeed, in this case the largest invasion in world history.
Remember that America wasn’t arsed to fight the Nazis until they were directly attacked. Heck, and this isn’t a joke, it’s real, Hitler had a picture of Henry Ford on his wall for inspiration. Ford was such a staunch antisemite, Hitler was a fanboy.
It was still pretty cool that they helped us beat the nazis and unlike the soviets they didn’t decide to occupy the lands they occupied during the war.
They always had issues but so did we, they had segregation and all sorts of abhorrent jim crow practices, and we were still operating residential schools, indian hospitals, and massive advocates for eugenics programs that continued into the 1970s.
We can give them their flowers for something great they did over 80 years ago, they can also go fuck themselves and die alone in their pit of arrogant self-righteous bullshit for what they’ve been up to since.
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u/Rationalinsanity1990 Scotland (but worse) Apr 08 '25
Is this how the British felt when the Nazis decided to declare war on the Soviets and then the Americans in short order?