Comments on: Russia and China flex their muscles at the West

By: Cait

Cait — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:15:33 +0000

I don’t think Europe owes us a damned thing for WWII. We jumped in because it was in our own self-interest to do so. Helping to defeat Hitler and liberate Europe was a nice by product. Whether the Allies could have defeated Hitler without American troops, who knows. But I don’t think we need to kid ourselves that our war contribution was altruistic.

By: olivia

olivia — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:30:17 +0000

As hard as ACNR?

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:37:03 +0000

Yeah – it’s funny how quickly those European bastards forget that the US kept them all from speaking German.

And how easily the Germans forget that we did them a HUGE favor by making the word Hamburger so popular…(assuming that hamburger is a german word or a place in germany or they sold one once or something.)

(Personal note: it was very hard writing that comment.)

By: Cait

Cait — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:45:19 +0000

To answer your question, Nathan, probably only our usual allies, Britain and Australia, although Japan might jump in because they hate & fear the Russians & Chinese. The French would waffle and the Germans would “Achtung” and the others would “harumph” and do sod all. Ultimately, I don’t see a Chinese-Russian alliance lasting. There’s too much bad history.

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:23:10 +0000

I thought you meant that Chinese and Russian *males* were flexing their muscles … imagine my disappointment.