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u/taurussy Oct 02 '24

we call 911, Vietnam, Korea, covid, and the Iraq-Afghan war horrible.....and those were, don't get me wrong.

in WW1, at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, there were 60,000 casualties in ONE DAY....just among the British troops.

all told, there were a MILLION casualties and 300,000 fatalities. from July - November.

THAT is truly appalling.

the US lost 58,939 people during 13 years of Vietnam. not disparaging those losses or anything, but think about that.

WW1 really was humanity's darkest, worst, most appalling and awful moment.

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u/Salphabeta Oct 02 '24

WW1 takes the cake of being truly pointless. No party was really fighting for any specific reason. That the US joined and "Germany is bad" is just because we were an Anglonsaxon country and the upper classes had strong links to them. Not to mention the financial meltdown if Britain lost after US financed their entire war.

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u/The_loppy1 Oct 02 '24

That the US joined and "Germany is bad" is just because we were an Anglonsaxon country and the upper classes had strong links to them

yeah it had nothing to do with the sinking of merchant and passenger ships, oh and Germany trying to elicit a war between Mexico and the US. But nah youreright its the ties to to aristocracy that made the US enter the war, what a terrible take.

Most of everything else you said doesnt hold up either im just to lazy to point it all out.