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Please don't respond to a bad comment by taking the thread even further into flamewar. That helps nothing. Especially not generic flamewar topics like Nazi Germany.

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That doesn't work forever. Name an honourable war conducted by the US military since 1946.

Korea, the gulf war, arguably Afghanistan, the cold war.

What is honorable is certainly subjective though.

We should also acknowledge the desperate lengths to which the US government has gone to soil any honor accrued in any previous wars.

On the recent anniversary of the fall of Auschwitz, The White House twitter account claimed it as a victory of ‘The United States and UK’. Supposedly the already-dishonest ‘Allied Troops’ is not cutting it anymore.

(The Red Army liberated Auschwitz)

Not to defend Trump, I can't think of more than a handful of times I've ever agreed with him, but can you imagine the uproar had he praised Russia for their efforts at Auschwitz?

Probably would have been best to praise the result without mentioning any specific parties involved in carrying it out. Then again, Trump isn't really known for thinking in nuance.

> can you imagine the uproar had he praised Russia for their efforts at Auschwitz?

From his supporters? Bearing in mind that he has a well established history of openly admiring Putin? I don't see why that would be a problem at all.

Why should that be an uproar? We've had these memorials of world war II for decades since the end of the war.

> (The Red Army liberated Auschwitz)

And then proceeded to imprison the whole country this camp is located in. And a few others on top of that.

Korea. Afghanistan.

Edit: And destroying Isis.

And then we shamed ourselves by giving up on the Kurds immediately, who did a lot of the fighting.

Operation Desert Storm

Check out living standards in North Korea vs. South Korea. Taiwan vs. China. Western Europe vs. Eastern Europe.

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