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Re: Politics
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 1:32 pm
by Gramsci
zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:34 am
The UK won WWII.
The UK lost WWII and were then rescued by the United States, its Imperial troops and most importantly the Soviet Union.
More Yugoslavs died in WWII than the Brits, who lost around 370,000 people. The Soviets lost 20 million.
Sorry to burst the national myth but the UK suffered pretty much the least out of almost every other combatant.
Re: Politics
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 2:13 pm
by zorg
Gramsci wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 1:32 pm
zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:34 am
The UK won WWII.
The UK lost WWII and were then rescued by the United States, its Imperial troops and most importantly the Soviet Union.
More Yugoslavs died in WWII than the Brits, who lost around 370,000 people. The Soviets lost 20 million.
Sorry to burst the national myth but the UK suffered pretty much the least out of almost every other combatant.
That did not stop them from sharing in the bounty.
Re: Politics
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 4:34 pm
by Ace K
zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 2:13 pm
Gramsci wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 1:32 pm
zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:34 am
The UK won WWII.
The UK lost WWII and were then rescued by the United States, its Imperial troops and most importantly the Soviet Union.
More Yugoslavs died in WWII than the Brits, who lost around 370,000 people. The Soviets lost 20 million.
Sorry to burst the national myth but the UK suffered pretty much the least out of almost every other combatant.
That did not stop them from sharing in the bounty.
The bounty? Post-war Britain was in a budget crisis, and shedding imperial holdings as a result - they slashed military expenditures and deficit-spent in order to create a necessary welfare state for post-war rebuilding. US aid was enormous.
Re: Politics
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 7:43 pm
by Curry Pervert
zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:34 am
The UK won WWII. It was riding high on a combination of public euphoria, German restitution payments, plundered German patents, and various other spoils of war. It wasn't some kind of miraculous economic formula but rather the correct bet paying out as expected.
I don't know where you get this idea that Britain was in a healthy financial state back then.
Britain pays off final instalment of US loan - after 61 years.
29th December 2006
Britain will today make the final payment on a multi-billion-dollar loan it took out in 1945 to refinance the country in the wake of the Second World War.
In a transaction that will draw the curtain on the devastating economic consequences of the bloodiest conflict in modern history, the Treasury will transfer £43m to the US and £12m to Canada.
The original loan of $4.34bn - equivalent to £27bn today - was made to avert Britain from bankruptcy at the end of the war rather than to finance the combat itself.
Re: Politics
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 8:11 pm
by TylerDeadPine
Curry Pervert wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 7:43 pm
zorg wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:34 am
The UK won WWII. It was riding high on a combination of public euphoria, German restitution payments, plundered German patents, and various other spoils of war. It wasn't some kind of miraculous economic formula but rather the correct bet paying out as expected.
I don't know where you get this idea that Britain was in a healthy financial state back then.
Britain pays off final instalment of US loan - after 61 years.
29th December 2006
Britain will today make the final payment on a multi-billion-dollar loan it took out in 1945 to refinance the country in the wake of the Second World War.
In a transaction that will draw the curtain on the devastating economic consequences of the bloodiest conflict in modern history, the Treasury will transfer £43m to the US and £12m to Canada.
The original loan of $4.34bn - equivalent to £27bn today - was made to avert Britain from bankruptcy at the end of the war rather than to finance the combat itself.
Re: Politics
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 1:57 am
by zorg
Where were you guys when I was advocating for fiscal conservatism? The British empire was already on the decline before the war, however, the UK received the lions share of war reparations from the Jerrys and with US backing was spared a worse fate. Absolutely in a much more advantageous state than countries which weren’t victors, or never had an empire to begin with, which was all I was saying
Re: Politics
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 1:11 am
by hbiden@onlyfans.com
hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 11:53 pm
losthighway wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 10:54 pm
A succinct rating system can be good. How would you rate the four presidents who preceded him?
clinton's term was the most prosperous. 7
bush was a puppet. 4
in 20 years there will be an obama elementary school in every major city. 6
trump makes me want to sin. 0
i might need to drop obama's score...
i long for simpler innocent times.
Re: Politics
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 4:41 am
by Gramsci
hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 1:11 am
hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 11:53 pm
losthighway wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 10:54 pm
A succinct rating system can be good. How would you rate the four presidents who preceded him?
clinton's term was the most prosperous. 7
bush was a puppet. 4
in 20 years there will be an obama elementary school in every major city. 6
trump makes me want to sin. 0
i might need to drop obama's score...
i long for simpler innocent times.
I kind of miss the Cold War…
7 was way too generous
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:34 pm
by hbiden@onlyfans.com
dana carvey is killing it this season! just look at the new snl sketch...
Re: 7 was way too generous
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:26 am
by enframed
hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:34 pm
dana carvey is killing it this season! just look at the new snl sketch...
I mean, it's possible, but hard to know if it's a fake or not.