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It astounds me that America has all this power in so many international institutions. America was much closer to the bad guys in ww2 until we were randomly attacked and dragged into the war. And since then we’ve been a violent, destabilizing force in the world. We are not and were never the good guys or even vaguely trustworthy.
Somebody’s never heard of lend-lease, the only reason the allies had the industrial capacity to hold Germany back.
They were attacked in retaliation for an oil embargo against Japan that would have brought japans campaign in China/the Pacific screeching to a halt
The US is far from perfect and was far from perfect in the 30s and 40s. There’s plenty to criticize without spreading misinformation. I’m not sure if you’re ignorant of history or just plain lying, but I am sure you’re not helping anyone.
The second part was admittedly an exaggeration, but the first part isn’t. America was all in on fascism and even nazism before being forced to actually join the war and those became enemies. America remained ‘neutral’ in ww2 for years (it was 3, yeah?), but it was the ruling class of America that empowered the Nazis and Nazi parties ran amok in America. Still do, but that’s besides the point. iirc we didn’t end corpo collaboration until after we actually joined the war.