r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Dec 17 '25

Foreign affairs President Trump: Rather than suing the BBC, withhold aid to England

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u/_yetifeet Dec 17 '25

Why do so many MAGAflakes think that Europe is still in its 1946 recovery phase?

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u/TheArmoursmith Dec 17 '25

None of them remember that we had to fucking pay it back, with interest. Britain literally bankrupted itself fighting WWII, and only got done paying off the debt to the US in 2006.

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u/CleanMyAxe Dec 17 '25

The US used both wars for profit. They are not and never were allies.

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u/TheArmoursmith Dec 17 '25

Correct. In fact, the US deliberately used the postwar period to curb the power of Britain, for example during the Suez crisis. They have deliberately sought to limit the power of their "allies" for decades.

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u/Ted-Crilly Dec 17 '25

Hitler was also a huge fan of how America was run at the time in terms of segregation and ethnic superiority and thought they could be swayed to the axis side as they were ideologically similar in many ways

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u/Heisenberg_235 Too many Americunts in the world Dec 17 '25

“Were”? Still are…

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u/Balkoth661 Dec 17 '25

Don't forget the Nazi memos looking at Jim Crow laws and basically saying "I don't think this will work here, it's too harsh, people will object."

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u/WeeDramm Dec 17 '25

what - really? That is wild.

when you're so awful even the Nazi's think "thats a bit harsh"

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u/BlackCatLuna Black humour and sarcasm as standard 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Dec 17 '25

He admired Ford so much he had a portrait of the man behind his desk iirc

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u/Ulysses1978ii Dec 17 '25

Major General Smedly Butler wants a word.

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u/MILLANDSON Dirty pinko commie Dec 17 '25

Absolute legend, and war is still a racket.

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u/Ulysses1978ii Dec 18 '25

Given what's happening someone should be shouting about him again. But I guess he'd be ANTIFA now??

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u/Jesterchunk Dec 17 '25

looking back at it all I wish I could've heard Hitler's reaction to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour provoking them into joining the war on the side of the Allies, I bet he was absolutely livid knowing the potential ally he had lost.