I'd say this instead: Yes, we did vote so hard that Hitler surrendered. It's obvioulsy not the whole thing, but it's 100% true. If the US had not been a democracy during WWII, the war would have looked very, very different.
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Not to be a jerk but Hitler never surrendered… I think that’s an essential point here and the Soviets sure as heck weren’t a democracy, yet they were the ones who took Berlin.
sep 3, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, okay, yes, but that wasn't the part of the original post we were talking about. I'd describe you more as pedantic than a jerk, and I'm enough of a pedant myself that rather than arguing with your pedantry, I prefer to be pedantic about it. Cheers!
sep 4, 2025, 6:56 am • 1 0 • view
Well, they "took Berlin" because Ike didn't want to deal with the Battle of Berlin; the Western Allies were in position to do so. It was also a political decision as much as a military one. This meant the W.Allies would be able to take control of more of the German industrial heartland.
sep 3, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, sure.
sep 3, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
You can 1:1 imagine Trump instead of FDR as President with this current Congress in the late 30's and I'd personally be surprised if the US wasn't overtly part of the Axis powers in that hypothetical scenario. Best case for the allies would be American neutrality.
sep 3, 2025, 8:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Axis-leaning neutral playing both sides. See, e.g., response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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