If you go back through history the greatest advancements have always come from the richest countries, they just have the resources to do those things. American athletes are bragging about how they’re the best in the world as they compete with people who lack basic equipment and have proper jobs. I remember some Olympic swimmer who had never even been in an Olympic size swimming pool before he got to the event.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources, then spent the next 5 decades taking repayments.
Your first part is fair, but your second part is a bit misleading. We sent troops, just not until people were convinced that it was an “us” problem too. People didn’t want to get tangled up in another one of Europes wars. Much like how most of the allies also didn’t get involved until they got threatened too. Except the soviet’s, who had an alliance with them.
It’s not like providing the materials needed to actually survive is nothing. Our entire economy was repurposed around doing so. The repayment was because a massive “European problem” contingent thought a budget neutral requirement would keep us from helping. We worked out a system where we bought long term leases on land, and they used that cash to buy weapons from us. It was a shell game.
We got rich after the war because everyone else was rubble and we still had factories.
Once you have a class of people, who don’t need to work, they will do interesting things. Many scientific advances and exploration was done by nobility and rich, who could afford to do something with their lives, which didn’t directly make money.
It’s easier and less risky to try to become a pro athlete, if you have enough money so you don’t fall hard, if you fail.
However for sports, there’s also huge programs run by states. Socialist countries typically put quite a lot of resources into identifying talent early and then systematically training them. The Soviet Union and later Russia are especially known for this. Many militaries allow soldiers to become full time athletes while being paid as soldiers. This works really well for national prestige.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources
America was already rich before WW2 started. During WW2 nothing in the USA was destroyed by the war, whereas Europe was devastated.
read a history book…they had to start a mass propaganda campaign across the US just to convince americans that the germans were the bad guys. (prior to pearl harbor, at which point americans couldn’t help but turn on their own asian-americans ontop of everything)
“whats so bad about wanting to hurt blacks and jews?” - average american wasp
Whataboutism. I was just lecturing my kid on Japanese internment camps. My eyes have been open for decades. Doesn’t mean every young man didn’t sign up to kill Nazis when we joined the war. I’ve spent my life obsessed with our warts. Glad everyone else has woke up, but some of us aren’t on the extreme pendulum end anymore and can see a single redeeming fucking quality of this country. I just listened to an MLK speech this morning and he calls out the warts and talks about the dream. That’s America. Some of us are old and angry and tired enough to take a breath and love the good half of this country.
If you go back through history the greatest advancements have always come from the richest countries, they just have the resources to do those things. American athletes are bragging about how they’re the best in the world as they compete with people who lack basic equipment and have proper jobs. I remember some Olympic swimmer who had never even been in an Olympic size swimming pool before he got to the event.
America got rich because when the rest of the Allies were fighting the Nazis they sat back and loaned resources, then spent the next 5 decades taking repayments.
Your first part is fair, but your second part is a bit misleading. We sent troops, just not until people were convinced that it was an “us” problem too. People didn’t want to get tangled up in another one of Europes wars. Much like how most of the allies also didn’t get involved until they got threatened too. Except the soviet’s, who had an alliance with them.
It’s not like providing the materials needed to actually survive is nothing. Our entire economy was repurposed around doing so. The repayment was because a massive “European problem” contingent thought a budget neutral requirement would keep us from helping. We worked out a system where we bought long term leases on land, and they used that cash to buy weapons from us. It was a shell game.
We got rich after the war because everyone else was rubble and we still had factories.
Once you have a class of people, who don’t need to work, they will do interesting things. Many scientific advances and exploration was done by nobility and rich, who could afford to do something with their lives, which didn’t directly make money.
It’s easier and less risky to try to become a pro athlete, if you have enough money so you don’t fall hard, if you fail.
However for sports, there’s also huge programs run by states. Socialist countries typically put quite a lot of resources into identifying talent early and then systematically training them. The Soviet Union and later Russia are especially known for this. Many militaries allow soldiers to become full time athletes while being paid as soldiers. This works really well for national prestige.
America was already rich before WW2 started. During WW2 nothing in the USA was destroyed by the war, whereas Europe was devastated.
Literally every young man in America enlisted in that war. Stfu
read a history book…they had to start a mass propaganda campaign across the US just to convince americans that the germans were the bad guys. (prior to pearl harbor, at which point americans couldn’t help but turn on their own asian-americans ontop of everything)
“whats so bad about wanting to hurt blacks and jews?” - average american wasp
Whataboutism. I was just lecturing my kid on Japanese internment camps. My eyes have been open for decades. Doesn’t mean every young man didn’t sign up to kill Nazis when we joined the war. I’ve spent my life obsessed with our warts. Glad everyone else has woke up, but some of us aren’t on the extreme pendulum end anymore and can see a single redeeming fucking quality of this country. I just listened to an MLK speech this morning and he calls out the warts and talks about the dream. That’s America. Some of us are old and angry and tired enough to take a breath and love the good half of this country.