• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      The European World Wars only produced losers. WW1 signaled the beginning of the end of the British Empire, the escalated decline of the French Empire, and the total collapse of the Russian Empire. WW2 obliterated a century of industrial development and squandered a generation of young people on a pointless pissing contest, only to hand the continent to a pair of foreign superpowers.

      The US came out ahead in both wars primarily because they were the last to join and the only ones to escape virtually unscathed.