Three quarters of Germans consider the United States to be an unreliable partner, according to a survey published on Thursday.
78% of those queried currently consider France to be a trustworthy partner and 74% consider the UK to be a trustworthy partner.
According to the survey, 40% consider Ukraine to be a trustworthy partner, while 48% of respondents believe that Germany cannot trust Ukraine.
OK, the one brief moment we incidentally ended up on the right side of history.
But you look at what we were doing immediately before and after that, selling weapons to the Nazis while praising fascism as the savior of Europe, and after, dividing Korea in half, then murdering anyone left of Mussolini in our half, it’s clearly an aberration.
“Saving europe from the nazis” is far too much credit for the USA… but they did play a significant role, just weren’t the only one putting in work to do it. Unfortunately the Soviets also took the eastern half for their efforts…
I don’t know what you’re referring to with “selling weapons to the nazis” though, the aid in weapons to Britain and USSR was significant before USA entered the war and there was a ban on selling weapons to anyone before that happened.
Same with praising fascism, in general the Nazis tried to demonize the US government and focused on the jewish members of it in particular. There were certainly some American fascists of course if that’s what you’re referring to but they didn’t represent the US as a country…
US splitting Korea is a bit like saying the US split Europe or Germany. It wasn’t the plan at the time but the USSR wasn’t going to let go of what they had occupied without it becoming ideologically aligned with them. The government that US supported carrying out purges is inexcusable of course but on the other hand but an even more brutal regime is now still in power in the North.
That said, post-WW2 USA certainly did it’s share of evil shit during the cold war. It’s just that the other side of that was still generally worse and USA got somewhat better over time. Now all that seems to be out the window.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
Sorry, converted factories in nazi germany to make weapons, while also continuing to sell nazi germany materials and financial services integral to their effort.
He was literally Time’s Man Of The Year in 1938; fascism was seen as the answer to communism.
It was ideologically aligned with them because they liberated the people and increased their standards of living by simply removing the Japanese and holding real elections.
South Korea could not be allowed democracy until like the 90s because the US-backed regime would immediately be ousted and probably executed for putting Japanese collaborators in positions of power and massacring entire villages due to concerns they would (rightfully) side with the communists when they invaded the north.
Yeah no, the US was literally genocidal in Korea and Indonesia and Vietnam. The singular time that the US was not worse than what we were fighting was when we ended up opposed to the nazis.
Where in particular do you see weapons factories mentioned in that? Some businesses continuing to operate in Nazi Germany, sure. Fairly far from the initial claim though.
Time magazine man of the year has never been about making an endorsement. He wasn’t portrayed as an answer to communism in the article but as a threat: https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/hitler/sources/30s/391time/391timemanyear.htm
Yeah… that’s not at all accurate. There were no real elections. A hand-picked leader who was loyal to Moscow by the Soviets. Communist as a requirement. Wasn’t great from the start and especially in the long run North Korea really has in fact proven to be the worse option…