Ryuu96 said:
Said it before but America's education system of WW2 must be awful. America doesn't understand Nazism in the way that Europe does, America doesn't understand the dangers of Russia in the way that Europe does. America will always look out for America first even if it means screwing over multiple other countries. Least at one stage you could count on America's hate of Russia outweighing these things, now you cannot. I'm pretty sure Americans would happily stand by and watch Europe burn at this stage, even back then they only got directly involved in WW2 because Japan attacked them. Now? They've just elected someone closer to Russia than Europe. About time Europe realised it's on its own. If America is going to stop supporting us, then we need to stop supporting America and focus on our own needs. This was objectively one of the first *GOOD* things that America has done foreign policy wise in decades, it was such a clear cut example of Good vs Evil. It wasn't America bombing the shit out of a country based on lies, or fucking oil, it wasn't America's piss poor destabilisation of the Middle-East. It was America helping a country fight for its freedom against another country, something America's all too much bang on about, but I guess the fight for freedom is only allowed for Americans and not for other countries? Decades of piss poor foreign policy decisions by America and finally they do ONE good decision and what are they about to do? Throw it all away. I'm sorry but this is why a lot of the world hates America. If it's not America bombing the shit out of a country, it's America helping another country bomb the shit out of a country and if it's not that, it's now America backstabbing its allies. I'm sorry Americans but right now I hate America and don't consider it to be an ally of the UK or Europe, I am done giving America the benefit of the doubt. |
America's education post-WWII was to gin up anti-Communist sentiment, and that morphed into labeling anything that people didn't like as Communist or as Soviet sympathizers. Dalton Trumbo even went to prison for almost a year because Ronald Reagan (who was then the president of the Screen Actors Guild) and Hedda Hopper (the Joe Rogan of her time) had a vendetta against him and put him in the crosshairs of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Our support for Ngo Dinh Diem, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Fulgencio Batista, Agustin Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos Sr, (his son got elected president of the Philippines two years ago) and the House of Saud was couched in our drive to "contain" communism. Chiang Kai-Shek actually carried out a pogrom against the Chinese people using weapons supplied by the West, and ruled Taiwan as a dictatorship for decades. B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha even tried to garner support from the United States (and the Thatcher-era U.K.) by labeling Nelson Mandela as a communist sympathizer. The civil rights movement in the U.S. was smeared as a communist movement by Southern segregationists. Edwin Walker called the civil rights movement a communist movement when he was running for governor of Texas, and a year later he and the John Birch Society ran ads depicting a poster of JFK being wanted for treason. Kennedy was assassinated in November of that year.
Fun fact: Senator Joseph McCarthy was a drug addict who got his opioids from rogue DEA agents.
Even when I was going to school in the 1980s, there was still anti-left propaganda being heavily pushed into schools. Every year, we'd take a field trip to an attraction called Enterprise Square USA, which was a shrine to Reaganism hosted by a Christian university.
