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Ok, let's look at the figures, shall we?
Right, Britain mobilised 8,720,000 men during World War Two, out of our population of 60,000,000. We lost 452,000 men in action, and 80,000 civilians.
Now, you Yanks. Mobilised 14,900,000 men (pitiful, since you're six times bigger than us), losses 407,000 military and 'insignificant' civilian deaths. Hmm, who was fighting this war?
And the Russians...Hmm, yes, they're about as big as you, aren't they? Mobilised 12,500,000 men, losses 7,500,000 military, 17,500,000 civilians (no, that's not a mistake. Seventeen million five hundred thousand).
China; mobilised 8,000,000, losses 1,500,000 military, 7,800,000 civilians.
(Figures from the Guinness Book of Answers)
Now then, the length of both World Wars for you Yanks. For the rest of us, the wars were 1914-1918, then 1938-1945. For you they were 1917-1918 and 1942-1945. Hmm.
Not to mention that you actually CAUSED the Second World War by siding with France on insisting that Germany pay compensation for the First World War to her enemies; to the tune of five billion dallars. This ruined the German economy and made the Germans discontented, giving Hitler exactly the climate he needed to rise to power.
So as you can see, the US barely lifted its bloated corporate finger to help the free world. YOU'RE the idiot, for swallowing all that US-is-the-best Hollywood propaganda without even questioning its validity.
And don't even get me started on that crap about the Irish. You expected blacks to fight in the Vietnam war before they even had proper civil rights. And WE'RE the cowards?
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