Well more broadly the US had to adapt far reaching initiatives that were close to National Socialism to win the war. You had governments controlling everything through rationing, cracking down on war desent, domestic spying yada yada.
And following the war the importation of German scientists and specialists continuing working under those same initiatives bleed into and influenced those programs, that they became the same things the US fought against. The American space race was a continuination of the German rocket program, for example.
I'm wondering what some of the smart people on this forum feel about this theory
Compared to lining up thousands of people and shooting them extrajudicially? It's peanuts.
Wartime censorship is the norm throughout the world. Not saying it's a good thing. If people knew the truth, they wouldn't be supporting wars.
If we want to get super technical about it every battle was lining thousands of people up and shooting them extra judicially, lol.
My only thought is you have a big boner for Lincoln and your bias makes you soften the crimes Lincoln committed.
That's an accepted and unavoidable part of war.
I'm less negative towards Lincoln than most people here, but that's in part because I live n the Old World where election cancelation, media censorship and killing of civilians are common practice during wars. And then you guys show up with your sweet summer child vibes, being outraged about all sorts of relatively mild things... and I feel like I'm in a normal vs. dark face meme.
What makes them mild things? I think the argument that worst things have happened isn't a fair argument against his crimes. The man is hugely responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, sorry if me saying that brings out a paternalistic urge to sneer at us mere muggles
That every other civil war is way worse. So relatively mild. Relatively mild doesn't mean that you have to approve of them.
I've never understood how, even though I of course wish that the Confederacy had prevailed in its quest for independence. It's uncontested control over a continent that allows the US to bully the rest of the world.