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27.02.2026 15:51
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kinda glad that Colin Allred pulled out of the Texas Senate race. He has the wrong name for a Democrat
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even if they had somehow delayed getting into direct confrontation with the US until 1942 or later, the US was already Lend-Leasing the Soviets, and once the US war economy was in the war, it's a war of attrition and Germany loses that, avoiding a total war economy until 1944!
WW1 German leadership drew the US into war as part of a gambit to finish the war quickly and it didn't work out. WW2 German leadership regarded the US as a primary adversary, were eager to draw them into the war, and did it just as they were getting bogged down in Barbarossa
I won't claim that it's a done deal if circumstances had gone that way and Germany didn't draw the US into the war, but I do think it's a better chance than Germany's chances in WW2. In either case, the fatal mistake involves drawing the US into the war
even so, desperate action because you're hungry and tired looks a lot different without a new, fresh army on the other side that's getting bigger every day, demanding you to act sooner and thus with less preparation
a German Offensive in 1918 without Americans in the war looks different. They launched it when they did knowing that the longer they waited, the worse it would be. That's a situation that drives desperate action rather than deliberate action
that was not my claim. My claim was that, if Germany hadn't resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, America doesn't join. That's a 1917 decision, not a 1918 decision
yes, the point at which it was too late for Germany. Precisely
the French mutinies happened in response to French military defeats before the Americans ever even got there. American troops landing kept the front stable *for the Allied Powers*. Without them, there's no fresh stabilizing force for the Allied Powers and no need to rush for Germany
German victory in WW1 is difficult and not without immediate post-war issues, but Germany was never going to win WW2 unless you assume the old army class removing the Nazis early enough they haven't declared war on the rest of the planet (when they were still riding high and unlikely to do that)
the conditions for mutiny were already there without the Americans. On the other hand, the collapse of the German military position after it exhausted itself in the Ludendorff Offensive followed by its collapse during the Hundred Days Offensive did kick off the German Revolution
the only thing that kept the Western Front stable by the end of 1917 was an influx of American troops. The French had stopped launching offensives, assuming that the army would revolt, to the point that the British had to start taking over in some French sectors, spreading them thinner and thinner
Germany almost won WW1: if they hadn't resumed unlimited submarine warfare, the US would've stayed out; the Ludendorff Offensive wouldn't be launched in desperation and exhaust their army; France was already cracking by the end of 1917.
Germany was never going to win WW2.
but the Nazis were never going to do that. Their ideology was that the species must return to what they believed was the state of nature: constant war of all against all. Hitler's Nero Decree extends from that ideology: if Germany couldn't force the world into submission, it didn't deserve to exist
the more I've heard arguments for how Germany could win WW2, the more I've become convinced that Germany *could never* have won
On a technical level? yeah perhaps, if they paced themselves and maintained limited war aims, they could have defeated the Allies in detail by going at them one at a time
It drives me insane that Elon Musk basically did a Holodomor on the third world and it's not treated like a bigger deal. This should be the number one thing that people know him for. This should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry. This is a history book scale atrocity.
Journalists are reporting that Juan Nicolas, a two-month-old detainee at the Dilley, Texas ICE Family Concentration Camp, has deteriorated so severely that he was rushed to a hospital in an unknown condition on February 16, 2026.
part of me wishes they had done more to redress it, part of me knows doing so would've been so much further down the priority list for any extra cash they got their hands onto
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Owi-Wan from Revenge of the Sith: "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!" Anakin: "The Dow is over $50,000"
they need to be sent to a penal colony
Democrats desperately need to learn how to outmaneuver for when the next one comes. They remain too accustomed to the pre-Trump GOP who fought mostly along static terrain and cannot compete against someone with zero principles beyond control
A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.
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King Macbeth, watching the halftime show: *panicked spit take*
“It’s cold here all the time and the food is poor. For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.”
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