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Comment by slavik81

3 days ago

The American Revolution was 240 years ago. The US Civil War was 160 years ago. The Second World War was 80 years ago...

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fifilura  2 days ago

Feels like cherry-picking.

WWII had very little to do with America in the sense that the American involvement was only a reaction to others messing things up.

While the other two are purely American.

  • cguess  2 days ago

    WWII had little to do with America? Go look up lend/lease and then remember we were bombed by Japan. The US was intrinsically linked to WWII from the beginning, just not with troops on the ground.

    • fifilura  2 days ago

      Yes but the cause was not American. And USA was pretty reluctant to be dragged in (not Roosevelt but the voters).

      I am just pointing out that you can make up any list in hindsight and make it look like Nostradamus prophecies.

      Where is french revolution or the great war in that list?

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