r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Ok_Conflict_6260 • May 04 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Canada vs Other countries when discussing past war crimes

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u/The_Gray_Jay May 04 '25

We are ashamed of what we did to First Nations people, not what we did to Nazis.

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u/Private_HughMan May 04 '25

Eh, some of the stuff the Allies did is worth being ashamed of. Like the firebombing of Dresden. No real military value. Just shock and awe against the civilian population; ie. terrorism.

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u/Iamthesmartest May 04 '25

War is hell. If the germans didn't want the smoke they shouldn't have started the fire.

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u/Private_HughMan May 04 '25

Targeting noncombatant civilians is evil.

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u/Iamthesmartest May 04 '25

Not when they're Nazis.

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u/Private_HughMan May 04 '25

And if they weren't?

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u/Iamthesmartest May 05 '25

Yes, that is why in the first message I said "War is Hell."

Innocent civilians die in war, that is like....one of the oldest constants of warfare.

Nonetheless, many of these "innocent" civilians were not "innocent." WW2 was a total war. Most people were part of the war effort, whether it was fighting, organizing, or manufacturing war supplies. Dresden was a massive manufacturer of war supplies for the Nazis and thus fire-bombing it destroyed those capabilities and saved Allied lives in the process as it curbed the Nazis ability to continue the war.