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Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




OhsH posted:

we nuked people

But were they brown

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Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
This thread is deeply offensive to me

Nutsngum
Oct 9, 2004

I don't think it's nice, you laughing.

Read some history. Russia was still in the loving darkages and needed so much poo poo from Britain and the US it was nuts.

fat bossy gerbil
Jul 1, 2007

Yeah our industry floated both our major allies when they would have gotten steamrolled in six months time if left on their own. And then we built all the stuff we needed to kick the poo poo out of Japan and secure freedom for the useful half of Europe on top of all those supplies we just gave away.

We also did Manhattan Project for shits and giggles while we were busy with that other stuff.

ehhhhhhnnnnnn
Jun 3, 2008
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Nutsngum posted:

Read some history.

suck my dick

Nodelphi
Jan 30, 2004

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

Ham Wrangler
Barely participated but still won easily. Exceptionalism is only bad if it's not true. Suck it world.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Why can't the rest of the world just get their poo poo together like the US?

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Also you're welcome for the billions of 1940's dollars we gave you worthless European trash states to try to fix your garbage socialist countries and never asked for any bit of it back. We came in, fixed your little war, and gave you money to clean your room. The US is basically the oldest kid in a broken home that has to take care of its parents as well as its siblings.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
In WWI we were able to suck up 1000 years worth of accumulated wealth from Europe by selling weapons and supplies to both sides, setting us up to be a future world power. Thanks a ton chumps.

ehhhhhhnnnnnn
Jun 3, 2008
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lots of misinformed americans itt
sorry about your poo poo country with its overblown sense of historical worth

ehhhhhhnnnnnn
Jun 3, 2008
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Kung Food posted:

In WWI we were able to suck up 1000 years worth of accumulated wealth from Europe by selling weapons and supplies to both sides, setting us up to be a future world power. Thanks a ton chumps.

that's true

AvesPKS
Sep 26, 2004

I don't dance unless I'm totally wasted.
The US supplied approx 80% of all the oil used by the Allies in both WWI and WWII.

Cake Smashing Boob
Nov 5, 2008

I support black genocide

that's how the clever states in Europe played it as well

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
gag on my american dick OP

www
Aug 4, 2010

Solice Kirsk posted:

never asked for any bit of it back.

heh

pepperburg
Dec 6, 2009

ehhhhhhnnnnnn posted:

9/11 was actually bad but pearl harbor was legitimately cool

all the colonial empires (Britain, dutch, etc) close off their markets to japan, isolating it from natural resources it needs to develop

japan attacks a military target on an american colony, hundreds of miles away from the continental us
so yeah nuking tens of thousands of civilians was totally justified right rip are troops

won't someone think of glorious imperial :japan:

Xenophon
Jun 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Grimey Drawer

Solice Kirsk posted:

Also you're welcome for the billions of 1940's dollars we gave you worthless European trash states to try to fix your garbage socialist countries and never asked for any bit of it back. We came in, fixed your little war, and gave you money to clean your room. The US is basically the oldest kid in a broken home that has to take care of its parents as well as its siblings.

France is the morbidly obese mom with cigarette-stained fingers complaining that we didn't cook dinner plus rapidement

Seizure Meat
Jul 23, 2008

by Smythe

to be fair we didn't ask them we told them

ehhhhhhnnnnnn
Jun 3, 2008
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pepperburg posted:

won't someone think of glorious imperial :japan:

hey if the dutch traded them indonesian oil they probably wou;dn't have invaded manchurahahahaha jk

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax
WWI, I will agree with you. WWII? loving bullshit. Europe could have been won without the US, sure, but it would have been far more difficult and would have cost more lives and the fact is that the US Army and Nay did mount mission-critical maneuvers which, regardless of whether those maneuvers would have been possible without American assets, directly contradicts the claim that the US "barely participated".

And then there's the Pacific.

Turtle Sandbox
Dec 31, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Nutsngum posted:

Seriously too, Russians are complete bitches when it comes to actual wars.

Literally had to burn their entire land to ash to stop Napoleon from having anything worth conquering. Japanese sunk their entire fleet lol. Got smashed so hard in ww1 they shot their own Tsar and sucked communist dick, relied on everyone else to not get their assed whooped for like half of WW2 and finally lost vs a bunch of goat herders in Afghanistan.

We laugh at the french for being poo poo at war but they were actually mostly okay at it. Russians are the real pushovers.

We hate the French because they are literally Euro America, if we had their land we would act better than the other Europeans as well.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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We should all actually be thanking Hitler for winning WW2 for the Allies. Invading Russia too soon, then loving up his attacks on England really tossed wrenches in the whole thing.

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Solice Kirsk posted:

We should all actually be thanking Hitler for winning WW2 for the Allies. Invading Russia too soon, then loving up his attacks on England really tossed wrenches in the whole thing.

don't forget ordering his military to discard the state-of-the-art equipment they busted their asses developing because he thought it was ugly

Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008

AvesPKS posted:

The US supplied approx 80% of all the oil used by the Allies in both WWI and WWII.

the russian supply line would have been basically a bunch of yaks and horses tied in a line if it weren't for lend/lease. All the trains/trucks etc were ours.

As far as WW1 goes, yeah, the only impact we had was ending it faster by giving an influx of fresh troops. It was p much already decided.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
John Wayne single handedly won ww2.

Macnult
Jul 7, 2013

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

don't forget ordering his military to discard the state-of-the-art equipment they busted their asses developing because he thought it was ugly


Another example of why art students make bad leaders.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Nutsngum posted:

We laugh at the french for being poo poo at war but they were actually mostly okay at it. Russians are the real pushovers.

At least Russia had a million starving peasants to put through the grinder to make a difference. The world's most useless warriors title will always belong to the Italians.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Kung Food posted:

At least Russia had a million starving peasants to put through the grinder to make a difference. The world's most useless warriors title will always belong to the Italians.

They were good at it before they were Italians though.

Macnult
Jul 7, 2013

France is a good support class according to Rainbow 6.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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They also had those big turret things in Red Alert 2 which were funny if you built one by a derelict on a small map and bombarded the enemy's base with a defensive weapon.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

Macnult posted:

France is a good support class according to Rainbow 6.

ding chavez 4 lyfe

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

don't forget ordering his military to discard the state-of-the-art equipment they busted their asses developing because he thought it was ugly

This is really hard to Google. What are you referring to? I'm genuinely curious.

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay
OP let me tellyou a story, when i used to PVP on WOW i would just sneak and wait for two people to fight and when they got low I would just do a few burst attacks and grab that KB.

my record k/d would be stupid and people would be mad at me but i would be on the leader board like "sup?"

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Smash it Smash hit posted:

OP let me tellyou a story, when i used to PVP on WOW i would just sneak and wait for two people to fight and when they got low I would just do a few burst attacks and grab that KB.

my record k/d would be stupid and people would be mad at me but i would be on the leader board like "sup?"

That video game story is so cool.

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Wendigee posted:

This is really hard to Google. What are you referring to? I'm genuinely curious.

I was thinking of the Stg 44, but when I tried to google it myself I found that there are actually several conflicting accounts regarding his opinions of the weapon and involvement with its development and (very limited) production, so the account related to me was probably apocryphal. My apologies.

Prorat
Aug 3, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
OP thinks WW2 only happened in Europe. OP is dumb as rocks.

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring

Bitter Mushroom posted:

claims that the usa is a 'back to back world war champion' are absolutely wrong. usa is more in the same league as Brazil, which took nominal part in both world wars also and barely contributed a thing. In WW1 all the fighting was done by France, Russia and Britain with the usa swooping in at the end to claim some minor credit after one pox ridden passenger ship got torpedo'd. Lol.

In WW2 the war was won by Russia, with the usa fighting in minor regional skirmishes with Japan. No sane civilized person cares about some pacific islands, and the Chinese managed to defeat them alone. If anyone cared about the pacific then WW2 would be said to have started in the early 30s and not 1939.

In conclusion I submit to you that the american 'glory' from these wars is purely a product of american media/propaganda, which has successfully fooled its own sheep-like people if not anybody else.

what lovely backwards european country are you from?

Wild Horses
Oct 31, 2012

There's really no meaning in making beetles fight.
Hitler's problem was he demanded too much retarded top notch tech to be used. They had a trillion tanks, lotta retarded weapons and super arty and whatever. Nothing helped

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Kung Food posted:

At least Russia had a million starving peasants to put through the grinder to make a difference. The world's most useless warriors title will always belong to the Italians.

All the badass Italians went to Corsica :smug:

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whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

Kung Food posted:

In WWI we were able to suck up 1000 years worth of accumulated wealth from Europe by selling weapons and supplies to both sides, setting us up to be a future world power. Thanks a ton chumps.

came here to post and also gloat about this

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