Either way, doesn't someone step in simply because they have something to lose? I help the cute neighbor edge her grass because when she bends over, I get a free show or she bakes me cookies. The people across the street don't do a thing for me and I don't do a thing for them. Why? We have no mutual interests. We do that in daily life. Think about the altruistic acts you perform. Are they really altruistic? I think not. You get some reward for it. Either in a physical payment or in some feeling of goodness having done something good since you have been programmed for it.
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If you guys didn't like the Russians should have fought them.
For the recored General Patton knew the Russians were no good and wanted to ally with what was left of the German army and push them back to there borders. |
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No, I am not Canadian, I have spent some time there.
My country has never needed to be "liberated" from the Germans, my grandfather died defending it against the Russians not the Germans. As to original topic, why would the EU (an economic union without a standing army) care about a country's civil war in Africa? Alex |
i tend to think russian maybe too. but our supplying them with trucks and planes and such was important to their efforts too.
we shipped a whole lot of trucks to russia built in south bend indiana...studies. the studie trucks were generally acknowledged to be tougher than the fords and chebbys. the russians loved the studies so much they copied them and cotinued to build them up into the eighties, i believe. b. you mentioned the us public being "tricked". if you are referring to FDR bringing along the public a little at a time when the public didn't want another european adventure, then i would suggest that the "trickery" was an appropriate use of the bully pulpit. i have no regrets at our involvment in ww2. we had no choice really. if germany hadnt been stopped they would have eventually threatened us. of course attacking russia was a blunder on hitler's part too. tom w |
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Dumptrucks with gasoline engines, what an incredible waste. Alex |
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Sometimes leaders want to do things that the voters don't like. Leaders rarely do so lightly because they know that the balance of history will judge them more harshly for failed effort than for no effort. There is no excuse for failure and when failure happens, every sin is exposed and minutely examined. B |
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