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
I gotta say, I was initially fixated on the "burn all the Jews part," of this one for obvious reasons, but now my mind is real stuck on the "conquer Europe" half. Cause, beyond the ethical imperative to prevent genocide, nations should clearly be able to act in self defense.
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Replying to @eggynack @arthur_affect and
This framework is one that dictates that you just have to roll over for literally any invader with marginally fewer scruples than you have because two wrongs don't make a right or something. Can you imagine the bizarre chaos of it all?
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He doesn't actually believe it to that extent, it's the Lindberghian idea that America's relative safety from being invaded due to being on another continent from the other Great Powers was our birthright and we should enjoy it and let the rest of the world hang
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