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Qece
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Dead End Zeroes
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Posted - 2006.12.10 08:46:00 -
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My wife is Swedish and regularly goes to a Swedish chat forum to keep up with the news etc. The topic of Iraq and Afganistan came up the other day and it obviously deviated from the original topic to "Is George Bush an idiot?". It was then that an American in severely broken Swedish heroically posted saying "You guys are lucky that we bailed you out in World War 2".
Point of fact, Sweden was never officially at war and was officially neutral.
Best reply that I've seen so far from the valiant Swedes - "Buddy, the last time Sweden was at war America wasn't even a country".
Can't judges the masses from the actions of a minority though. Especially not the population of an FPS server.
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Qece
Gallente
Dead End Zeroes
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Posted - 2006.12.10 09:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Zhu Dark
Sweden would've been taken by the national socialists as soon as the Allies were out of the picture, though. The Germans couldn't invade Sweden ala Norway/Denmark because that would've allowed the Allies to bomb Swedish steel industry. In that perspective, by defeating Germany pre-emptively, the US did bail Sweden out as well.
However, I've always been pretty certain the Soviets did more to finish off Germany than the US did, but that's another topic 
The context of the American's post did infer that he thought that Sweden were fighting the **** party.
On a similar note I read an article in a very prominent british newspaper that stated that Lord Nelson was one of the greatest Brits to have ever lived as had he not beaten the French at Trafalgar there would have been no British Forces to fight the **** war machine and thus the Allies would have lost WW2. If you consider that thought though Napoleon would probably have marched on the rest of Central Europe mainly unhindered and therefore there would have been no **** war machine for the Allies to have to defeat.
You can't second guess history.
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Qece
Gallente
Dead End Zeroes
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Posted - 2006.12.10 09:23:00 -
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Originally by: Grim Starwind
Edited by: Grim Starwind on 10/12/2006 09:13:12
Just for the record.. the US didn't really care about bailing out the UK and the other allies. The only reason it joined the war was to stop Japan, and Japan being allied with Germany and US deciding to allie itself to the UK brings it into the western front as well. So it wasn't exactly as if America raised there lil flag and ****ed down their trumpets and shouted "LET'S SAVE THE ALLIES!!". Although, they kinda did in a way.. but I don't imagine without the russians, british and.. well, the french hehe.. they would have been all that successful.
But shhhh - we're getting off topic here. Scotland is part of britain. Deal with it 
People mock the French for their rather poor military record but without La Resistance the Allies would have faced a far tougher task in France. La Resistance was key in providing information, assassinations, disrupting supplies and various other forms of espionage on top of doing a damn good job at getting downed pilots and escaped PoW's back to Blighty.
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