Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "What Makes America Different? | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. Yes, our (US) education system is bad now, especially primary and secondary, because of socialism, the legalization of public sector unions, the establishment of the US Department of Education (last 2 by J Carter admin) and the domination of NEA of the whole system from federal DOE to state depts thru the classroom. The US educational system sucks because it is big govt not limited govt.
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  2. Most of the studies that are cited to show European aid comparable to US aid count only government to government aid. US private charitable aid is greater, as a percentage of GDP, than other nations. https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/americans-are-far-more-compassionate-than-socially-conscious-europeans/ Quote: Wow, people in the United States are so generous that their voluntary giving amounts to 10.2 percent of gross domestic product. The only other nations that even crack 5 percent of GDP are the Netherlands, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Most of the supposedly compassionate welfare states have dismal levels of charitable giving. Voluntary social expenditure in major European nations such as France, Germany, Italy, and Spain averages less than 2 percent of GDP.Unquote.
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  3. The Soviet Union would have collapsed under German pressure without US aid. We supplied them, among other things, with food, trucks, Sherman tanks, P47 strike/fighter aircraft, the tooling for an entire truck factory. We supplied shermans to every allied power in droves before the war was over. A key factor in the collapse of the European Axis was the loss of North African oil. In the North African campaign, we were still playing 2nd fiddle to UK in terms of force levels at that stage, but we were the reinforcement that broke the tit for tat stalemate between Allied and Axis theater forces, this plus aid to UK setting the stage for the endgame. Without the US, UK could not have opened the western front in time to forestall our strong colleague, the USSR, from overrunning much more of Europe. We didn't take superpower status from WW2, we earned it.
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  4. The vast bulk of military and humanitarian aid came from the US, even before the declaration of war, and well before Hitler ever attacked USSR and continuing past the war's end. The whole point of the German U-boat offensive was to starve the UK into submission. This only makes sense in a context where US is feeding UK. Despite Hitler's incompetent meddling, the whole eastern front affair ended up coming to the balance of a hair, and would have had a different outcome if either the US or UK had not been aiding the Soviets. The Germans would have been sitting on the Soviet rail and industrial hub to the north, poised to cut off the ports further north, and in the south securing Crimean oil. As a result of the Ukrainian genocide, the Ukrainians were the only people in the world who hailed the Wehrmacht as liberators, so they wouldn't even have had to occupy the Ukrainian heartland. Push to the starving Urals, invade the starving UK, and that's a win. Germany could have made up aircraft losses eventually to support the invasion if US B-17s had not bombed German aircraft production in massive daylight bombing raids. The UK could not have fuelled their Spitfires unless US kept running the U-boat blockade. The honor goes to France and UK for standing first against Reich tyranny, but all would have been in vain without the US contribution, before and after the declaration of war. On the African front, 300 Shermans were already delivered to Montgomery by the battle of El Alamein, and the 2 front Allied offensive, US from west, and UK/US from east drove Rommel out of Africa. I will refrain from reciprocating the insults, in the name of Allied solidarity.
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  5. Manos Christophakes they wanted a goverment that would be friendly to american goverment.? If you mean they wanted a government that was not a sponsor of international terror, then yea, that was precisely the stated goal.
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  6. Oscar Hade He did not say anything racial, because American is not a race it is an idea. Freedom=Limited Government.
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  7. Joel1704 AH none of this amounts to corruption. Corruption means a conflict of interest undermining the legitimate authority.
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  8. The only sound humanitarian concern is not income equality percentage as such, but the absolute living standard of the poor. By that standard US poor are better off than the poor of most other countries.
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