Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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On 03/07/07 01:06, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0500
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote:
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> [...]
>
>>> Oh this is just too funny! The US protecting the rest of the world?
>>> When? Where? Hawaii? Cuba? The Philippines? Guatemala?
>>>
>> You mean like Korea, Japan (post-WWII), *ALL* of Europe? As has
>> already been pointed out, if not for the US, everybody in western
>> Europe would be speaking only German today.
>
> [...]
>
> No, you've got it wrong. It's thanks to the old Soviet Union that we in
> Western Europe are not speaking only German. It's thanks to the US that
> we're not speaking only Russian.
>
> :-)
:-)
That's a great what-if game.
What-if... the Germans had just stopped at Greece and the English
Channel?
What-if... the Germans hadn't gone to Moscow, and just focused on
Kiev, Stalingrad and the Caucuses?
What-if... Hitler hadn't declared war on the US?
All the steel that was used in building U-boats could have gone into
building tanks, we probably wouldn't have blockaded them, or bombed
their cities or provided gobs and gobs of war material to the Sovs.
They'd have had Lebensraum and all that Caucasus/Romanian oil, plus
Poland, all of Western Europe & Norway.
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