r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 22h ago

Soft Paywall JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-mocked-for-embarrassing-wwii-history-mistake/
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u/Migrant-With-MK47 21h ago

Fucking idiot.

WW2 had no concessions.

We bombed two of Japans cities with nukes. And Russia raped its way to Berlin AND Germany was split up for a few decades.

Dumb fucking idiot.

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u/Fenris_uy 20h ago

Didn't we also hang most of the leadership of Germany that survived the war?

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u/Healter-Skelter 17h ago

as I understand we didn’t do quite enough, as many government officials were kept around to run West Germany. They were the only jobless germans around who knew how to run a government and the West decided to keep them around as a bulwark against USSR

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u/i_never_ever_learn Canada 20h ago

"WW2 had no concessions."

You should try their bacon dog

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u/LegitimatelisedSoil Europe 16h ago

I mean all allied forces had high amounts of rape and sexual assault towards German women, it was disgusting. The red army did it more but they also had more men in Germany, so statistically it's higher but it's was bad across the board.

Unfortunately no allied forces took it seriously and for the most part due to the occupation of Germany most cases were just ignored and very few people saw justice. There's reports of soldiers raping German teenage girls to death or causing them to go to hospital in critical condition and it wasn't uncommon for officers to be involved or to take a blind eye.

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u/agk23 20h ago

I’m all fairness, he could mean how US negotiated with Russia over German land. It’s not like Ukraine is being invited to these negotiations either

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u/Hpulley4 19h ago

I thought I heard someone floating the idea of West and East Ukraine with West Ukraine being offered immediate NATO membership as a possible “negotiation” but I assume it didn’t get far.

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u/Old-Bison9790 18h ago

And even then Japan was still willing to fight on until they learned the Russians where also joining in 

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u/Larry-Man 18h ago

There were tons. At the beginning. See: Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement

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u/SOMEONENEW1999 15h ago

We also firebombed an entire city where the entire city looked like the surface of the moon…

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u/FoolishConsistency17 15h ago

And the "negotiations" of WWI were a significant cause of WW2, so also not a great example.