re: What’s an American history hot take you’ve got?

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The US should have joined the UK and what’s left of Germany to steamroll the Soviets after WW2, starting with atomic bombing Moscow even though their leadership is there. The US don’t negotiate with terrorists.

No Soviets means no North Korea, no North Vietnam, no Chinese nuclear weapons because the Ruskies shared it with them, no Pakistani or Indian nuclear weapons. The world may have been too peaceful afterwards.

Hell I would go one step forward and ignored the Brits and just joined Germany to take the Soviets out. The Soviets only stood a chance because of US backing during the entire war.

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I see this take a lot.

I always wonder who takes over/occupies Russia? Wouldn't that just create a MASSIVE power vacuum?

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The US should have joined the UK and what’s left of Germany to steamroll the Soviets after WW2, starting with atomic bombing Moscow even though their leadership is there. The US don’t negotiate with terrorists.

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I'll go one further. The US and UK fought on the wrong side. We should have joined with the Germans in their conflict against the communists. The Soviet Union was legitimately the greater evil, both at the time leading up to '39, and for sure in the years afterwards. Nothing was gained or preserved in defeating the Germans, except creating a vacuum that paved the way for the EU.

People said this at the time of the conflict, but more importantly, people such as Patton understood it once it was over. Which is why he had to be killed.

Invading the West Coast or even Hawaii was never part of Yamamoto's plan.....hunting licenses had nothing to do with his cslculations.

.....or, if the Allied Powers were allowed to march into Germany and affect an unconditional surrender.

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JFK jr was killed so he would not get in the way of a woman who desperately wanted to be a senator.

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I've heard this argument, and I'm sympathetic to it, but I need a little more evidence to see the plot behind it. Several pilots I knew said, at the time, that JFKJr took unnecessary risks in bad weather, and many an inexperienced civil pilot has gotten themselves killed in this way.

Was it fortuitous for HillDawg that JFKjr wasn't in her way for that NY senate seat? 100% Do I think she was ultimately responsible for his death? No, but I'm open to hearing the argument.

I'm more likely to believe that the family itself was overwhelmingly cursed, and that Joe Kennedy Sr made an ugly deal with Power.

The Rosa Parks story was a photo op / set up.

One more for the road:

We fought war in Afghanistan specifically to secure the poppy/opium trade. The Taliban had largely destroyed the opium crop, and we came in to prop it up. This directly led to the rise of the opioid crisis, and enriched Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, directly at the expense of people in Applachia. We're still, as a society, paying for this mistake, while none of the evil Sacklers are hung or in prison.

You don't have Fentanyl and that shite destroying towns and cities across the country without securing the Afghan poppy fields 20 years ago.

Democrats and Republicans fight on TV, then go to Capital Grill and have dinner on my dime every night.

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The Rosa Parks story was a photo op / set up.

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no shite

The sun rises in the east sets in the west

It cracks me up when people come in with this like it hasn't been known since the incident itself took place and people come here acting like they've learned a secret of history

Everybody knew what was set up at the time. There had been previous attempts to get media attention on the issue; there was still segregated bussing in Birmingham That's a historical fact

Electing Wilson over Teddy caused most of the 20th century’s problems. The rest were caused by Lyndon Johnson.

The New Deal lengthened and worsened the Great Depression on purpose in order to slowly creep towards authoritarian socialism.

FDR paid Huey’s bodyguards to kill him. The alleged assassin was a patsy. If Huey had survived, he would have been elected, and he would have gone down in history as memorably as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot.

The Spanish Flu was the first plandemic.

Lincoln was a tyrant who had a vision for an Imperial USA and used the war to centralize executive and federal power to make an American empire possible.

The deep state killed all 3 Kennedys, MLK Jr, Malcom X, Seth Rich, and tried to kill Reagan (but ultimately got what they needed out of him via his VP essentially running the show after Reagan survived). They also manufactured Watergate to sideline Nixon.

Clinton and Bush Sr were in league with the CIA smuggling drugs and guns from and to Latin America, helping to fuel the crack epidemic in the inner cities in the late 80’s/early 90’s.

We should have annexed northern Mexico after the Mexican American War, Cuba after the Spanish American War, and the Philippines after WW2.

We never should have moved to direct election of senators. Them being appointed by and subject to being recalled by state Senators was a critical check and balance on federal power which has been removed to our detriment.

School desegregation in k-12 largely failed nationally.

State borders were drawn nearly as arbitrarily as borders in the Middle East and Africa, and this should be revisited in some way.