Hell, in the case of Nazi Germany and other regimes happy to rely on forced labor, blowing up a munitions plant would likely mostly kill Jewish workers imported from the camps This is a moral dilemma brought up in Schindler's List etc It's the ugly moral calculus of warfare
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
Your moral standards would make it basically impossible to wage strategic warfare against a country like Nazi Germany at all It'd limit the warfare of your country to limited wars of "self-defense" on their own territory, which is what the Geneva Conventions were invented for
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jlippincott_ and
Which, you know, is all well and good, if you're safe and well-fed and happy in your own country and other people's problems are not your business, like Lucky Lindy openly argued for Not so great if you're a German Jew being systematically genocided
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndrewJensen2 and
Yes, I am arguing for limited war. Every righteous crusade of my lifetime has been bullshit.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @arthur_affect and
And you know damn well that America didn't fight WW2 to save the Jews. It wasn't even about stopping tyranny either. That's why we cozied up to Stalin.
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Replying to @jlippincott_ @AndrewJensen2 and
Well, yes, the main concern for our leaders was not having Hitler rule half the world as a fascist dictator, which really is bad enough
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndrewJensen2 and
Instead we let Stalin govern from Sakhalin to the Elbe. Before Hitler ever opened a single death camp the Soviets were openly slaughtering kulaks and "wreckers" but he was a "good guy"
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Replying to @elliotreed @jlippincott_ and
No, he would've let Hitler conquer Europe and burn all the Jews therein and let him stand as a bulwark against Stalin, like all the fucking fascists in America and Britain advocated in the 30s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @elliotreed and
why do you always retweet your own tweets? Is it for visibility?
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When they're replies in the middle of a thread, yeah
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