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Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China
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Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:10:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> I'm wondering if you really disagree with the Greg's implied stance about the
> role of the US staving off Germany during WWII.
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> I don't really get off on the US' role in the war, but my analysis does seem
> to suggest that the Germans would have more substantially dominated Europe
> (and by extension, the world) without the US to counter. I once read an
> analysis that if Hitler had kept us out of things long enough to capture
> Gibraltar, he would have basically won (or some facsimile thereof).
I have to confess that my WWII knowledge is somewhat less than exhaustive.
However, while I don't deny the importance of the US role, it's tricky to
say (although Greg has now clarified that he was being sarcastic) that the
US "saved" Europe, which implies to me that the US was somehow
singlehandedly responsible for fending off the German army.
What I really want to know is where the heck was Russia during all this
Nazi stuff? ;^)
Dave!
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| (...) Russia and Germany were engaged in the greatest land battle in the history of the planet. The scope and devastation of it was truly appalling - it's what ground Germany up. Of course, neither of those two sides was out to "save" Europe, and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I agree with the whole point of your note, Dave. But I'm wondering if you really disagree with the Greg's implied stance about the role of the US staving off Germany during WWII. I don't really get off on the US' role in the war, but my (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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