U.S.A. #1!

U.S.A. #1!

Finally understanding how the U.S.A. excels!

The U.S.A., home of the free and the brave! The best country on Earth! The greatest country that has ever existed!

9/11 occurred while I was in high school and I remember all of the various military recruiters always being in our cafeteria trying to give away various trinkets and sundries to get us to sign up. Eventually, we also had the ASVAB test given “for free” to help us figure out our strengths…this was really just a way to get us all on a recruitment list so they could come harass us at home as well.

During those years I considered enlisting, after all, we had been attacked unprovoked, and it’s the honorable thing to do to fight and defend your nation! Then my cousin woke me up that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda, even though the media was pushing this narrative, and eventually, I realized that the Taliban had nothing to do with it either, in fact, we had actually supported the Taliban (then the Afghan mujahideen) during the 1980s, supplying them with weapons and training as a proxy war against the U.S.S.R….hmm must be a fluke!

“Well, the Cold War against the Soviets must’ve been the real deal, they must’ve been really evil!”

Turns out we supported them too, up until the end of WW2 when we realized they had grown to be a world power as well, and we didn’t want to share the world stage with another nation that could challenge us.

“Oh yeah, we saved them from the Nazis right?!”

The U.S. often takes the credit for all of that war, ignoring that while fighting the Nazis the U.S. lost a total of an estimated 180,000 during the war, while the Soviets had entered the war against the Nazis 18 months earlier lost an estimated 27,000,000 fighting along an 800-mile (1,300 km) eastern front, stretching the Nazis thin. Yet the U.S. still tries to take nearly all credit for the war, especially when the subject is taught in high schools, which is the only education many U.S. citizens get given how expensive higher education has become.

We can forgive the U.S. for getting involved so late, after all, they were making money with their business dealings with the Nazis, while also doing lend-lease to the British. It’s important to leave no conflict unexploited for financial gain.

“What businesses? I’ve never heard of such! You’re a dirty history revisionist!”

Well here is the list:

General Motors: GM, through its subsidiary Opel, also manufactured automobiles, trucks, and aircraft for the Nazi war effort.

IBM: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has faced scrutiny for its role in providing punch-card technology that reportedly was used in the organization and administration of concentration camps.

Standard Oil: Now part of ExxonMobil, Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil) had business dealings with Nazi Germany. They were involved in the sale of petroleum and also engaged in the development of synthetic rubber, which was vital for the war.

Chase Bank: Part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Chase Bank reportedly had involvement in managing German funds and facilitating transactions even after the U.S. had entered the war.

Kodak: Eastman Kodak had a branch in Germany, and there are reports that the company made use of slave labor from concentration camps and also continued trading with Nazi Germany.

“Well that must’ve been before we knew better, but we still swept in and saved the day! Then we also used those nukes to stop Imperial Japan and end the war!”

That’s a topic of debate, and history doesn’t really support it either. The bulk of the Japanese force had entered mainland China seeking more resources and since so much of mainland Japan was destroyed by the U.S. carpet bombing by that point, destroying two large civilian centers with nuclear bombs didn’t make much of a difference militarily.

However, the bulk of Japan’s military met the Red Soviet Army in mainland China, now fighting a single front rather than two, and this forced their surrender, but they said it was the bomb because that was a less shameful defeat losing to a “god weapon”. That narrative pisses off a lot of Americans though, and doesn’t fit with the narrative that has been repeated over and over in an attempt to be true.

Eisenhower told his biographer that he expressed to War Secretary Harry Stimson his “grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face.’”

In reality, the U.S. committed a horrible war crime by dropping those weapons and killing 220,000 people as a flex towards their then-ally, and soon-to-be rival the U.S.S.R.

Plus the U.S. allowed over 1,600 higher-ranking Nazi officers asylum in the U.S., during Operation Paperclip. Many of the founding members of NASA were Nazis, building off of the development of the Nazi V2 rocket. We’re not talking about Nazi grunts who signed up rather than being imprisoned or something, we’re talking about officers who hanged Jews from the ceilings in factories as an example to other Jews that they should work faster.

“What about Vietnam? That was justified! We were trying to spread democracy and freedom to them, so they wouldn’t be overrun with communism!”

Funny, because the U.S. lost that war like it has every war since. Plus it seems the people did vote for a communist, and wanted him in office since they fought tooth and nail against a larger force and ejected them eventually from their land. Were U.S. troops trying to spread “freedom” with all the heinous things that happened there like the My Lai and My Khe massacres, where 504 were raped, tortured, and killed?

“Well those were some bad apples, I’m sure they faced justice!”

They in fact did not. The army did everything it could to cover it up. Only one man, William Calley, was even put on trial and convicted for it and he was pardoned by Nixon.

What was the U.S. even doing over in Vietnam? The answer, trying to assist France in retaining a colony. You know, like what the U.S. was for Britain before the revolution. That’s not really spreading freedom now, is it?

“Well we wanted to spread democracy!”

First off, communism in theory is pure democracy, not representative democracy that is geared towards rule by the minority like the U.S. has, but secondly, the U.S. has never valued democracy. I present as evidence the numerous times the U.S. has helped to topple democracy.