And 99% of the devastation of Germany was by the British and American air forces. And it was Stalin who said he would have lost but for Lend-Lease. The Russians inflicted terrible casualties on the Germans, but equally true that U.S. manufacturing swamped the Nazis -- and the Japanese.
And I get a little twitchy when someone reduces the American effort to "producing a lot of planes". My mother lost a fiance on D-day, and the massive production of war materiel was backed by GIs who gave their lives alongside our allies, in Europe and the Pacific.
America entered the War in Dec. '41. Don't think it's fair to say the tide had turned by then. Germans hadn't even been thrown out of Africa. But my point was the poignancy of the Nazis dismissing diversity as impotent, when it was the bombers built by that diversity that rained down on the Reich.
disabled workers who built them - played a huge part in destroying their Reich.
And the precision daylight bombing that destroyed German manufacturing and refining was solely American. Willow Run manufactured one entire bomber per hour. No other country, including Germany, could come close. And yes, those bombers - and the disproportionately black, female, and
Appreciate your voluminous knowledge of WWII, friend, but the fact is that approximately 2/3 of all allied munitions - including aircraft - was American made, much of it sent to Britain and Russia under Lend Lease. That doesn’t take away from the heroism of Britain and Russia, but it’s a fact.
And let's not forget about the black workers on the home front in WWII, whose massive bomber production at Detroit's Willow Run plant was not believed by the Nazis because so many workers were black and female. Those bombers destroyed their Reich.
Somebody tell Hegseth his hatred for DEI is not new.
Absolutely, Eddie.
And as Major League Baseball goes on endlessly about Jackie Robinson, they may want to note that Robinson’s own military service involved facing a court martial for refusing to go to the back of the bus in Texas - and that Trump is actively undermining black history and promotion in the military.
Novice Catholic JD Vance implying that he knows more about theology than the Pope, is like Trump implying that he knows more about spelling than the dictionary.
The best will come when we have a president who is an adult, not an authoritarian toddler prone to hissy fits and military assaults whenever he doesn't get his way.
Oh, and we could do without the absurd "ballrooms" and Nazi arches too.🙄
Republicans scream "voter fraud" when they want to suppress votes. They blather "healthcare fraud" when they want to cut healthcare. They are congenital liars.
Of course, Mr. Ambassador, while your position may have changed, the fact of Putin being a war criminal has not changed at all, and is totally independent of what office you happen to be currently occupying, is it not? The civilians he's butchered are not impacted by who is your employer, correct?
Smart of them to schedule it indoors so he doesn’t get struck by lightning.
Crazy Eyes may be unaware that truth is a complete defense to a defamation claim.🙄
Review of the brand new sitcom, the Mike Hegseth Show:
When a fascist cosplays a Christian, hilarity ensues.
LIke Ollie North when he was lying, this mansplaining idiot is blinking to beat the band, to justify Trump's calamitous war --which is either totally over, or about to destroy a civilization, depending on Trump's mood when he spews his usual lies.
Overt fascism, yet our media remain terrified to use the word.
And your newspaper - and its Vichy owner - cravenly refused to endorse the opponent of this psychopath??????
Der Fuhrer will not be disturbed by your insolence!!
But she'll take the impending rout of Republicans off.🙄
Considering her support for a useless, genocidal war, it's a wonder that Stefanik is leaving politics.🙄
Republicans demanding that the media acknowledge that their mad, naked emperor has wonderful clothes. The president and party of "no more wars" now supports "as much war as we feel like and we feel like a lot right now".
One more time. It should come as no surprise that the wonderful @nytimes.com is soft on Trump fascism, inasmuch as it published a puff piece on Hitler LESS THAN TWO WEEKS before he started WWII.
www.nytimes.com/1939/08/20/a...
He's certain that the increased gas prices, massive disapproval for an unnecessary war, increased healthcare prices and every thing else can be easily addressed with . . . a big, fat voter suppression bill.🙄
Trying to undermine elections - through voter suppression bills, manipulation of state election results, and casting aspersions on the results - is how a fascist movement desperately tries to avoid the consequences of its own abysmal governance.
MAGA remains certain that bombing school girls and threatening civilian infrastructure in violation of international law, is so "Christian" of their cult leader.🙄
Manipulating the justice system on behalf of allies and against dissenters, is Play 1 in the Fascist Playbook, yet our crack media remain too petrified to even mention the word.
Of course it will be a rout, which is why the party of fascism - which fears any kind of democratic election - is desperately trying to pass a huge voter suppression bill so it can escape from the monstrous unpopularity of its president and its policies.
Authoritarian toddler threatens to destroy civilizations when they won't let him play with his toys.