>Marcia, there's a fact that can't be denied, a fact I'll always remind others when the converation gets to this point....we "nasty, imperialistic, war-mongering" Americans freed Europe from totalitarianism....not once, but twice.
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>Yes, and the Chinese invented those fireworks you so enjoy so they must be good guys too. ;-)
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>As for your assertion: surely WWI wasn't about totalitarianism at all and surely Germany lost WWII by attacking Russia and messing around rather than smashing through to Moscow? It's worth calculating how the world would look had Germany taken Russia followed by the UK and then had supplied Japan to avoid the need to attack Pearl Harbor.
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>If it's any consolation, there is no doubt whatsoever that the US saved the Pacific Australasia in WWII.

So if WWII was not about totalitarianism then what it was about? I am also perplexed by your second statement (that you will probably cut off in the next message) that Germany lost the war 'by attacking Russia' and not 'smashing through the Moscow'. How could you blame them in both 'faults' together?