re: WHO was the “bad guy” of WWII?

Look at what the US was involved in at the time in regards to aiding Britain. It was essentially a state of war. The US was in no way neutral at the time. Hitler stated he did it to unleash the full power of his u boats against the US/shipping.. He also said that he felt that he was obligated to declare war because a state of war now officially existed between his ally Japan and the US. Tripartite Pact. He said that was his interpretation of the Pact.

Japan's strategy had already shifted South instead of going against the Soviets. Japan went as far as signing a non aggression treaty with Stalin. When that happened that allowed Stalin to shift troops from the East.

Japan and Germany were never close in so far as sharing equipment/technology.

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theballguy

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Dude you are an idiot. You came in here referring to an essay that doesn’t exist and sucked off Churchill. Take a lap

That's dumb. Books dont say that. The Communists didn't spread their shite by losing every war. The Mongols? Cambodian Civil War? Muslim Conquests?

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 And in my honest opinion, America as a whole has become worse than all of them

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Thanks Mr. Code Pink!

The thing is, Hitler and National Socialism’s rise to power was a direct result of radical leftist movements and ideology.

Japan basically screwed him. When Japan signed the treaty with Stalin, the Germans didn't know it was coming. Japan pulled a Hitler on Hitler.

Hitler's other ally Mussolini was a great detriment to Hitler. Hitler bailed him out and continued saving his arse. Hitler never turned on him all the way to the end. Very strange. That in some ways was costly for Germany and it's fortunes.

There were smaller right-wing nationalist parties that were eventually absorbed into the NSDAP.

Hitler at one point said, “the communists can join us, but we will not join them.”

Ok, but once Hitler takes over all of Europe what was England or the world supposed to do? You can’t walk away from that. I’d love to hear other options?

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The roots of WW2 go back to the Treaty of Versailles. The greed and vengeance of the WW1 allies set the stage for an even greater war and allowed the ''bad guy'' Adolph Hitler an excuse to go on his murderous rampage. Much of the far left's policies in Europe are a direct result to make sure Nazism never rises again.

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It's really all Gavrilo Princip's fault

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Cooper never once said hitler was a good guy yet here they are spewing the lie again. Completely discredits their whole rant.

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this started on my play next on the way to church (i think Shapiro can be a 'tard on this sort of stuff like Israel/Gaza, but i can listen to some other things and enjoy) and i listened for a few minutes and bailed.



if you have any interest in Cooper's own words here's a full interview.

tl;dw:

of course Hitler is the bigger bad guy. of course the Holocaust is awful. but it's almost like a religious ritual that you can't even talk about WWII objectively 80 years later without making sure that you say "Hitler was evil and the Holocaust was bad." If you don't repeat the ritual of saying "Hitler was evil and the Holocaust was bad" then anything else you say is obviously approving of Hitler and denying/approving the Holocaust.

You can disagree or agree with his analysis, but his simpler terms were "if there's a standoff with the police and a man with a gun and his family held hostage and it goes south, it's not the police that pulled the trigger. nobody says "this was the murderer AND the police's fault."

we have no idea if that guy was going to pull the trigger no matter what and there's no way if there's a possibility that he could have been talked out of it. but he did pull the trigger and it lead to the worst possible outcome. it's ok to look at the police tactics and ask what went wrong without blaming them.

We can say whether or not WWII could have ended better, but there's not a ton of ways it could have been worse. maybe 6 million Jews died in the holocaust instead of 7, sure, but then 6 million people died.