Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "How did The United States plan to fight the British Empire before WW2?" video.

@Coneman3 Sure, everyone does bad things. But in WW2 there was an obviously "good side" if only because they were nowhere near as bad as theit opponents. So I fail to see what you are complaining about. Some Americans liking Hitler doesn't change that the US was mobilized against him.
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@Coneman3 Also, why are you only looking at Western imperialism? The world is filled with imperialism, hardly just the West.
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@Coneman3 That's because despite their sins, the US has had an extremely positive effect generally; at least in the grand scheme of world politics. Mention Vietnam, which is a clear negative, but that decision was motivated by the fight against totalitarian ideology -which is a clear good thing. A US that did not fight the Cold War is a world which is far more plagued by state repression and government-sanctioned mass killings than in our history. Even the dreaded right-wing dictators the US sponsored killed far less people than those spawned by the USSR. But that doesn't mean criticizing the US' use of "we good guys, thus can do whatever we want" isn't a bad thing. But your method of it is the exact opposite; you're using a lie to combat a partial fact. WW2 was DEFINITELY a just war, by any metric you can use, and that needs to be acknowledged. That doesn't mean that you can make arguments about what the "good guys" could've done better. That's a separate conversation. To be frank, it sounds more like Pro-Nazi propaganda than anything. Though I don't believe you are, that's genuinely what it sounded like.
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@Coneman3 Huh??? Seriously? We're talking about the reasons as to why this specific war occurred; investment into anything is a given, a fact no matter what. That's like saying trade with Germany is partially what caused WW2 since the income to the German government allowed for the build up of military forces. US bombers were not told to avoid anything; they bombed everything they found. I need a citation for that; because that's something I have literally never heard of before. The West can't control what Germany does with trade or investment; nor can it control their citizens from investing. IT was Germany's responsibility to militarize and then use that militarization to make massive war. It's a ludicrous standard you've foisted on the West, dude. Again; may as well blame the entire world since the international trade network is what allows for such wealth to make such massive industrial wars to begin with.
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@noname_758 I think the issue is that everyone forgets that everyone did bad stuff to respect the country for something; but if its the US then everyone can't seem to have that courtesy. If everyone talked about nothing but atrocities in another country's history, then I'd think they'd complain too.
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The new world order is better than the last, so I'd definitely be against such a "revolution".
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@mexicanamerican573 Psht. Anyone that proclaims another citizen as an "enemy" is someone who has already lost their mind.
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@Coneman3 While that is true, it isn't why WW2 started. Which is the topic, I think.
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@Coneman3 WW1 conditions were too harsh yet too lenient; Germany was too humiliated to not want revenge, but was also left too strong and thus left the option open. But ultimately, it wasn't the harsh conditions, but the myth of the "Germany didn't really lose" or the "stabbed behind the back" myth that occurred because people in Germany refused to believe that their country lost in WW1 too. It was as much internal lies/propaganda that caused the rise of the Nazis as external fuckery. But yes, the stock market crash and the idiosyncrasies of Hitler taking advantage of that frustration and anger also had its place. The US didn't want anything to do with any war at all; idk why you're saying that investment into the Ruhr Valley had anything to do with it. If anything, it was the French illegal occupation of the Ruhr Valley that won Germany some sympathy which made some side with the Nazis initially. Regardless of anything; the US had zero interest in leaving its isolationism to enter a European war, though US leaders hedged their bets just in case. You're ignoring a lot of the other issues that caused the war, with money being more of an excuse than anything else. Ideology, I would say, had far more to do with the war. After all; if money was the be all end all; the US would have never entered the war to begin with and would have sold to both sides. Heck, WW1 had powers which traded extensively with each other go to war. Money isn't the answer to everything.
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@youtubeaccount5153 Ok, while I agree that people look for reasons to bash the US. Wr can't ignore that there is evidence that police are generally bias in shootings and that blacks in the US do face discrimination. Thr bigger lie is that othet countries don't face similar race issues, if not worse. Lord knows I wouldn't want to be non-white in some place like France or Germany compared to the US.
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@youtubeaccount5153 "By proportion of crimes" is a very faulty way to dismiss this. Put frankly; even if that is true, police shouldn't be killing people more because of crime. That IS a bias, but you're at least partially right that it's more complicated than one might first see. However, there are other issues that are far more cut and dry. Like blacks being given more prison time for the same crime as whites, for example; that I think is undeniable and clearly a bias that needs correcting. That doesn't get to other issues that blacks as a community face that others don't; yeah, it's nowhere near as bad as other people think, and frankly the US is better for it in talking about it while others ignore their mistreatment of minorities. But we shouldn't dismiss its existence. Don't be obtuse, man. Democrats or Republicans; it doesn't matter who made the laws or why. What matters is that your fellow Americans get a shorter end of the stick when they should be getting a fair shot like everyone else. That alone, as an American raised on presumably American values, should get your blood pumping. Not necessarily equality of outcome, but equality of opportunity. US being less racist than other countries doesn't mean we shouldn't work to diminish racism further. Also, to be frank, the US genuinely does have a police brutality issue. No other first world country has so many cops killing people, just generally.
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@youtubeaccount5153 The implication is that Reps don't like minorities, yes. And that's a left-wing bias in media for you. If you want an easy way to debunk that, look up the statistics of Republicans in support of Afghan refugees. It was like 76%, I think, so that should shut some people up. Still, blacks genuinely do face discrimination still. And it must be addressed. And it should be noted that like not all Republicans are like other Republicans, not all progressives are like other progressives. College-level political figures are uniquely insane in the US, for some reason. Look, I argue with people in all politics, including against progressives when I think their ideology veers too much into racism against white people. I ain't a hypocrite on this; I just want everyone to be more empathetic to each other instead of labeling each other as enemies to shout down. So try and empathize with the black community that for too long were mistreated, and thus have plenty of reasons to be wary of authority. Improving things is the only way to slowly wean this mindset.
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@jimbell364 Everyone criticizes everyone else, what are you talking about? But the US doesn't criticize countries when talking about history -it just memes about it. The Americans aren't the ones with an axe to grind.
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