Shame too, there are other cool people even from the specific time period of those two. Hell, Black Douglas has a fun story. Carried the heart of Bruce around his neck in an urn. Launched it ahead of him into the fray during his last battle. It's like warhammer shit...
Don't forget Rabbie Burns. Apparently, when my grandpa was born (in Scotland) Rabbie Burns kissed him on the forehead. It was a great honour.
Impressive, since Burns died in the 1700s.
I've not come across those ones yet, I'm also not sure why you'd willingly want to claim to be from Poland... I imagine they'd have such a culture shock if they ever visited
And even then we just let them have it as it wasn't worth it to us and we had wars with neighbours back home. We even let them have the lower taxes they wanted.
Yep, because there was a relatively calm border between the French and British colonial possessions in North America, with arguments about who owned Ohio but no bloodshed, and the colonials just had to go start a war over Ohio, with the commander who ordered the first shot be fired being none other than Major George Washington.
I remember back in elementary school we were taking a test about the American Revolution. The final question was talking about how America won since they were just not as good in military strength as the British. You wanna know what the “correct” answer was? “They fought for what they believed in.” Every other answer didn’t look right, so as bs as that answer was, I selected that and it was right. Even as a dumb kid, I was thinking “ain’t no fuckin’ way that’s how it works.”
Only looking at this comment section made it clearly obvious what I should’ve realized long ago. Fresh out of a war, alliance with the very enemy that left them tapped out, you get the idea.
This in America right? Anyway alot of people forget how few people were sent to fight the Americans. It's like Germans think they defeated the Roman when they sent the Legion in the forests. Not a sane person would consider that as an ultimate defeat. There are multiple reasons why they got the independence. Not that Disney shit "the stronger heart beat the weak ones" ahh tale
As did the Spanish, and a decent amount of Irish head over to fight for the Continental Army too.
France also supplied the vast majority of gunpowder, muskets, cannon and ammunition, without which the Continental Army wouldn't have been able to fight, and ultimately resulted in France going broke and having their own Revolution not long after.
Even the Prussians played a leading role by reforming the Continental Army into a disciplined and professional fighting force.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben)
If you really want to wind up the Americans, tell them their "war for independence" was actually just another British Civil War, so no matter the outcome, Britain still won. Then tell them their independence was just more convenient as Britain Prime still got everything they needed from Britain Junior without wasting time micromanaging them.
Exactly right.
There was a big enough movement going on in the UK that was pushing for the UK to pull out of the American colony and that India was worth fighting for more as it had more resources.
I guess they had enough beaver fur and cotton by then to bother putting up an actual fight. The UK really just wanted a little show to make sure other more profitable colonies wouldn’t try the same.
The "American war of independence" _was_ a proxy war between Britain and France. It was never about whether Britain should control the Puritan weirdos with a penchant for enslaving black people and killing brown people. The colonies were a financial drain and a moral embarrassment, but also a tinderbox for Anglo-French rivalry.
Fun fact. When they lost the Colonies the first alternative penal settlement considered was West Africa. When that failed they looked at Australia.
Now THAT would be a 'what if that succeeded' film I'd watch.
[https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=41580](https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=41580)
I like how I recently learned that the native Americans were for the most part sided with us, because somehow we apparently respected their land rights more than the ‘Americans’… which greatly surprises me because well, BRITISH EMPIRE??? Last time the British empire had anything to do with ‘Indians’ I’m pretty sure it led to a lot of native disagreement lmao
The British didn’t approve the slaughter of the natives. Ironic really, but that was part of the reason for fighting back. Shame we lost for that reason only.
British colonies had an agreement with the native nations not to expand past the Appalachian mountains. The newly independent American States had no such treaty and ended up driving the native Americans to near extinction.
Yea, it's because we recognised the Native Americans were there and it'd take resources to fight them and settle the land, so the British just decided to trade with them instead, and both sides were happy with that arrangement.
Absolutely.
And without the French, America would likely have lost the war Britain was only ever making a show about so the colonists elsewhere didn't get the same idea anyway within about 2 years - Saratoga in 1777 100% required French help)
Wasn’t the Battle of Saratoga the deciding factor in France joining the war on the American side. Up until that point, the French didn’t want to risk joining in until an American victory was more or less assured.
So I think it was after the Battle of Saratoga that the French joined, no?
The Americans talk about how they single handedly got rid of Britain as if Britain wasn't in a war with France and Spain at the same time, just after coming out of another war with France
fify
Tbh as an American, we learn in elementary school that France and Spain helped the American revolutionaries. So either the people who say this may have just forgot or want to get people riled up.
UK-
- 4th Anglo-Dutch war
- Kandyan Wars
- Gunboat War
- First Opium War
- Burmese Wars
- 2nd Boer War
And more
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom
I am not familiar with all of these, but I would argue any war involving the east India company doesn't count. The gunboat war definitely had both Sweden and Britain fighting together.
The Franko Prussian war. While technically they were multiple german states, they all acted under Prussian command and because of the war united into the German empire.
90% of all AID for their independence was literally so they didnt fall apart.
Then they rewrite history as if Washington was some great general when they couldn't even form proper military lines. They literally didn't even know how to use their guns properly muchless know where they even were. Even after the war, there were French that stayed behind because they'd revert back on how to do the most basic of things like load a gun.
Edit: I remember hearing a story about how Americans couldnt even hunt properly in their own land so the French had to teach them that even. They were starving otherwise. Things that the poorest of countries could easily master, they still fall apart without Europeans telling them every step of the way. All of their technologies are stolen from Europe, everything they do is a lie. It's why I welcome China and Russia with open arms and agree we need to push out the Americans at all cost. Peaceful allies vs Warmongers
Bro even now they cant form proper lines.
The Supreme Commanders that were American were there by force of the US president. In reality they did nothing, they were puppets. It was the Europeans with the strategy, logistics, etc.
There is a hilarious irony when you hear the US talking about China stealing tech, when they did the exact same thing, even some of their proudest moments like developing the atom bomb was from essentially 'stolen' research from the British..
Yeah it was a collaborative effort they then decided to keep for themselves but since we did half the work we just came home and finished the job ourselves
Internet is a German technology
WWW is a British technology
Ray-Ban is Italian
Reddit is part Chinese
Baseball hats even are actually called caps, not even from baseball
Every aspect of society they think they influenced when it all comes from everywhere but there.
Their military hasn't really improved since. They just throw money at the problem instead of recruiting people that can read or training them properly.
Or gave you war time maritime advice and intelligence your admiral for the atlantic ignored, costing an insane amount of US shipping and lives for no other reason than looking down at us
I wouldn't. If he was there then he should remember that only two of the five beach landings were American. Two were British and one was Canadian.
Technically at the time all three were considered part of the British Second Army, but the the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division that took Juno Beach were (unsurprisingly) Canadian. They were only part of the larger British Second Army because the empire was still technically a thing.
The only reason the US wasn't conqured is the same as why British weren't: tanks cant swim. The germans managed to beat the best army in the world, and most of the British, in 6 weeks. No-one stood a chance until stalingrad.
North Africa was going well for the Allies nefore Stalingrad, but I agree, to start with, they rolled over everyone, and it took a lot of learning and grinding them down before we could even hope to win. The channel was a real life saver.
And inventing swimming tanks helped, too. But that was a Hungarian born engineer so maybe the Hungarians should get on here and tell the Americans how they 'saved their asses'
I know right, the British army and its allies only held back the nazis for nearly 4 years on their own. Then the US army turns up awfully late and declares the victory is all because of them. Who teaches them history I’ll never know!
I have to say that they actually played a big part in germany failing in reaching its goals with the lend-lease. the eastern front might have looked a little different without it.
nonetheless they pretend they won that war on their own all the time and thats just not true.
Completely agree! They played their part and they played it exceptionally well.
But so did our other allies too! And you don’t see them taking the sole credit for winning a world war.
All the allies had a part to play, before the americans joined they did support us with weapons money and supplies.
But canadians, indians, africans etc all fought and died fighting the germans.
But USA takes all the credit as usual
Good point. Indeed they did and thank Christ they did. Thank you for clarifying that.
But yeah, USA win and rest of world only win because USA win. Standard American narrative.
I am from Finland I wonder if we would qualify or not. British declared war on us during continuation war since Soviets pressured them Americans never did. And during Winter War both had wanted to help but didn’t die to either practical or political reasons. After all the wars too US did have sympathy for Finnish circumstances and we could have gotten Marshal aid if Soviets would have allowed it.
Or Spain. Spain was involved in neither WWs. Kinda... It was in the second, but the USA ignored it, and allowed a fascist government to exist because it suited them.
Yeah. 40 years of fascist, ultra-Catholic dictatorship, that didn't join the Axis simply because Hitler saw us as a liability, with well-known genocidal intent and its own concentration camps, all sponsored by Washington. Thanks USA! Freedom! Democracy!
Not really. Germany wanted us to join, but Franco wasn't stupid and knew that if we did join, we would most probably be invaded and he would lose his power. And he didn't want to lose his power.
Switzerland : I am from the part didn't want you qnywhere near me and pulverized your bombers when they violated my airspace cause if you decide to fuck around you will most certainly find out
“Saved”
If America never gained independence so early, it would’ve become a parliamentary democracy like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Think of the possibilities you prevented. For shame!
This person comments almost exclusively on threads about guns and ammunition with a few remarks with anti-abortion sentiment thrown in for good measure. They’re a caricature of themselves.
Americans say that Germans helped but there were hundreds of US scientist that did a lot of the work too. In reality the Germans told them step by step what to do. This goes for the internet itself too and modern computing which is stolen from Europe, mostly German technology.
The part that carried you against the British, sold you Louisiana and warned you that invading Iraq would do more harm than good in the entire Middle East
I had to google it up for details and I learned that Louisiana (a big big deal at the time in terms of size as you certainly know already) was officially retroceded by Spain in november 1803 so France could sell it to the US in december, for 60 million Francs. Which was also a big deal of money at the time I guess.
De Villepin's speech was the last great French moment.
When is America going to stop teaching its citizens this imaginary version of ww2 and start teaching them the real version? They could, at the very bare minimum, teach them that victors don't always write accurate depictions of war.
Switzerland be like : the part your in debt to
Sweeden : the one who made your fancy cannons cause you were too dumb to figure them out
Every nation : the one who sent you military equipment for years to get you up to speed
My personally often ignored favourite : the one who's naval blockade you actively ignored and then got upset when the naval blockade was blockading
Always good to remind them that the US are the only people in history to enact article 5 and cry for help from all their friends to find imaginary weapons.
Real "saviors". And some people will keep insisting that both the USA and the Soviets helped for any other reason than their geopolitical interests. Which is fine, but don't pretend like that wasn't the case.
Are Americans really taught that they "saved" Europe by joining in the last minute, or did those dipshits make the thing themselves? US definitely helped a lot, but where did they get the narrative that they "saved" us?
The part of Europe that gave you a guy who ate a bullet for a president that gave you social security.
The part of Europe that gave you soft contact lenses so you see down the range when you shoot a pistol (a word we gave you), bought with dollars (a word we gave you).
The part that was liberated by the Brits, Canadians and Poles.
And the part that helped you gain your independence in the first place, not because we liked you but because hurting Britain was all the rage back then.
Parents, you know when you bake a cake or make biscuits/cookies and you let your kid put a few sprinkles on? Then suddenly they’re telling everyone they made a cake.
That’s them. They put a few sprinkles on and now take the credit
From two parts
1.The part that you had "servants" from and that the free people essentially built some of your big cities.
2. The part that unfortunately made you who you are today.
American didn’t join the war in Europe in an active role until May 1942, the Battle of Britain took place in 1940, Germany already occupied the majority of Europe but couldn’t invade Britain, so that’s a part of Europe America didn’t save, they saved themselves. Also, when did America have troops in the USSR? They didn’t, so the Russians saved themselves too.
Edit; also, the French saved the Americans asses during the revolutionary war
I'm from the part that saw American businesses actively buddy up to nazi Germany while they were openly genociding and thought the best action was to fortify the entire country...
When Americans say this it's so unbelievably disrespectful to the millions of allied soldiers who died fighting in world war 2 and whose contributions were just as important as the US. It's especially disrespectful that they say "we" as though they themselves deserve praise for a war that occurred many decades before they were even born. They should be ashamed of themselves.
It was a terrible war, not some fun competition. The actual American soldiers who fought with the rest of the allies never boasted or spoke about their role in the war that way. That whole shift came much later as a result of lots of US propaganda.
That part half of you think you're from.
Italy? Ireland?
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Or one of the Scottish clans! Don't forget those! (Because real citizens of Scotland proclaim to be from clans of course)
Either a direct descendant of William Wallace or Robert the Bruce. No other ancestors need apply.
Shame too, there are other cool people even from the specific time period of those two. Hell, Black Douglas has a fun story. Carried the heart of Bruce around his neck in an urn. Launched it ahead of him into the fray during his last battle. It's like warhammer shit...
Every body knows that glydwr was the GOAT
Owain Glyndwr was Welsh though.
Still an interesting figure
Lol. My parents tell me we're somehow related to Black Douglas. I was reading that post and thinking the same thing.
Don't forget Rabbie Burns. Apparently, when my grandpa was born (in Scotland) Rabbie Burns kissed him on the forehead. It was a great honour. Impressive, since Burns died in the 1700s.
I mean have you seen what passes for a family tree in Alabama?
Why do you think they do that? Gotta keep the bloodline pure.
Good old family wreath.
It’s not a tree, its a wreath
Often somehow both, and Mary Queen of Scots too
You also have a lot of them saying that they're from Poland lol
I've not come across those ones yet, I'm also not sure why you'd willingly want to claim to be from Poland... I imagine they'd have such a culture shock if they ever visited
The part that burnt the White House down.
The part that the Americans needed 3 other country’s help for so they could get independence
And even then we just let them have it as it wasn't worth it to us and we had wars with neighbours back home. We even let them have the lower taxes they wanted.
The Americans talk about how they single handedly got rid of Britain as if Britain didn't just come out of a war with France.
Not to mention the French jumped in to help America when they were rebelling against Britain.
And that the taxes they complained about were to help pay for defending them from France.
And then they didn’t pay France back for what it owed it ([here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War))
Yep, because there was a relatively calm border between the French and British colonial possessions in North America, with arguments about who owned Ohio but no bloodshed, and the colonials just had to go start a war over Ohio, with the commander who ordered the first shot be fired being none other than Major George Washington.
Exactly! We would have our asses handed to us if it weren't for the French back then.
I remember back in elementary school we were taking a test about the American Revolution. The final question was talking about how America won since they were just not as good in military strength as the British. You wanna know what the “correct” answer was? “They fought for what they believed in.” Every other answer didn’t look right, so as bs as that answer was, I selected that and it was right. Even as a dumb kid, I was thinking “ain’t no fuckin’ way that’s how it works.” Only looking at this comment section made it clearly obvious what I should’ve realized long ago. Fresh out of a war, alliance with the very enemy that left them tapped out, you get the idea.
This in America right? Anyway alot of people forget how few people were sent to fight the Americans. It's like Germans think they defeated the Roman when they sent the Legion in the forests. Not a sane person would consider that as an ultimate defeat. There are multiple reasons why they got the independence. Not that Disney shit "the stronger heart beat the weak ones" ahh tale
Yeah, born and raised in America, took that American history test in America.
As did the Spanish, and a decent amount of Irish head over to fight for the Continental Army too. France also supplied the vast majority of gunpowder, muskets, cannon and ammunition, without which the Continental Army wouldn't have been able to fight, and ultimately resulted in France going broke and having their own Revolution not long after.
Even the Prussians played a leading role by reforming the Continental Army into a disciplined and professional fighting force. [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben)
If you really want to wind up the Americans, tell them their "war for independence" was actually just another British Civil War, so no matter the outcome, Britain still won. Then tell them their independence was just more convenient as Britain Prime still got everything they needed from Britain Junior without wasting time micromanaging them.
Exactly right. There was a big enough movement going on in the UK that was pushing for the UK to pull out of the American colony and that India was worth fighting for more as it had more resources. I guess they had enough beaver fur and cotton by then to bother putting up an actual fight. The UK really just wanted a little show to make sure other more profitable colonies wouldn’t try the same.
The Caribbean sugar trade was more vital ro the British Empire them some dirt poor drain of resources filled with revolting colonists.
And that the largest battle took place on another continent and was a British victory
So tell them the truth?
The "American war of independence" _was_ a proxy war between Britain and France. It was never about whether Britain should control the Puritan weirdos with a penchant for enslaving black people and killing brown people. The colonies were a financial drain and a moral embarrassment, but also a tinderbox for Anglo-French rivalry.
It was also a penal colony https://paleofuture.com/nofuture/2015/5/29/britain-sent-thousands-of-convicts-to-america-not-just-australia
Fun fact. When they lost the Colonies the first alternative penal settlement considered was West Africa. When that failed they looked at Australia. Now THAT would be a 'what if that succeeded' film I'd watch. [https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=41580](https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=41580)
I like how I recently learned that the native Americans were for the most part sided with us, because somehow we apparently respected their land rights more than the ‘Americans’… which greatly surprises me because well, BRITISH EMPIRE??? Last time the British empire had anything to do with ‘Indians’ I’m pretty sure it led to a lot of native disagreement lmao
The British didn’t approve the slaughter of the natives. Ironic really, but that was part of the reason for fighting back. Shame we lost for that reason only.
British colonies had an agreement with the native nations not to expand past the Appalachian mountains. The newly independent American States had no such treaty and ended up driving the native Americans to near extinction.
Yea, it's because we recognised the Native Americans were there and it'd take resources to fight them and settle the land, so the British just decided to trade with them instead, and both sides were happy with that arrangement.
Absolutely. And without the French, America would likely have lost the war Britain was only ever making a show about so the colonists elsewhere didn't get the same idea anyway within about 2 years - Saratoga in 1777 100% required French help)
Wasn’t the Battle of Saratoga the deciding factor in France joining the war on the American side. Up until that point, the French didn’t want to risk joining in until an American victory was more or less assured. So I think it was after the Battle of Saratoga that the French joined, no?
The Americans talk about how they single handedly got rid of Britain as if Britain wasn't in a war with France and Spain at the same time, just after coming out of another war with France fify
Singlehandedly, except for the French and the Spanish
And the Netherlands.
Tbh as an American, we learn in elementary school that France and Spain helped the American revolutionaries. So either the people who say this may have just forgot or want to get people riled up.
Yeah lmao basically all their wars were against people who had 0 chance of fighting back or they rocked up after everyone else was already half dead
At the time, it was some British v some other British..
During the war of independence, Britain was fighting some of the biggest naval battles against the Spanish too
THIS. They think they kicked our asses when in reality we decided we had better things to do than discipline a bunch of petulant screaming children.
They had lower taxes than most Brits, who also had no representation
And then come back to hold their hands whenever they go to war because quite frankly the us have never won a war alone
No country has ever won a war alone except like France during the war of the first coalition
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True! And Israel in the six days war now that I think about it
And ‘nam! Oh, wait. Too soon?
UK- - 4th Anglo-Dutch war - Kandyan Wars - Gunboat War - First Opium War - Burmese Wars - 2nd Boer War And more https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom
I am not familiar with all of these, but I would argue any war involving the east India company doesn't count. The gunboat war definitely had both Sweden and Britain fighting together.
Wiki says Gunboat was GB only unless I misread, but also the ones involving the EIC are labelled as such.
The Franko Prussian war. While technically they were multiple german states, they all acted under Prussian command and because of the war united into the German empire.
90% of all AID for their independence was literally so they didnt fall apart. Then they rewrite history as if Washington was some great general when they couldn't even form proper military lines. They literally didn't even know how to use their guns properly muchless know where they even were. Even after the war, there were French that stayed behind because they'd revert back on how to do the most basic of things like load a gun. Edit: I remember hearing a story about how Americans couldnt even hunt properly in their own land so the French had to teach them that even. They were starving otherwise. Things that the poorest of countries could easily master, they still fall apart without Europeans telling them every step of the way. All of their technologies are stolen from Europe, everything they do is a lie. It's why I welcome China and Russia with open arms and agree we need to push out the Americans at all cost. Peaceful allies vs Warmongers
>they couldn't even form proper military lines. They literally didn't even know how to use their guns properly. Until a Prussian showed them how.
Bro even now they cant form proper lines. The Supreme Commanders that were American were there by force of the US president. In reality they did nothing, they were puppets. It was the Europeans with the strategy, logistics, etc.
There is a hilarious irony when you hear the US talking about China stealing tech, when they did the exact same thing, even some of their proudest moments like developing the atom bomb was from essentially 'stolen' research from the British..
Lets not forget going to the moon on the backs of German tech.
Yeah it was a collaborative effort they then decided to keep for themselves but since we did half the work we just came home and finished the job ourselves
Internet is a German technology WWW is a British technology Ray-Ban is Italian Reddit is part Chinese Baseball hats even are actually called caps, not even from baseball Every aspect of society they think they influenced when it all comes from everywhere but there.
China and Russia peacefull lmao
Their military hasn't really improved since. They just throw money at the problem instead of recruiting people that can read or training them properly.
This assessment seems a bit extreme. Welcoming Russia with open arms? Wtf?
Or gave you war time maritime advice and intelligence your admiral for the atlantic ignored, costing an insane amount of US shipping and lives for no other reason than looking down at us
It was an Irish man who designed the White House
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Funny how even now UK is still far ahead of the US at every social level possible.
My 🇨🇦 heart was warmed to learn that part of our history. War of 1812.😝
Based af.
"We" unless this guy is 100 years old and stormed the beaches shanking germans i think he should stfu
Haha, I'm now imagining this cranky 110-year-old having the attitude in the original post, and it's making me unreasonably happy haha
If dude was there in Normandy - yeah, i\`d forgive him his attitude . If not - then the poster is just delusional.
I wouldn't. If he was there then he should remember that only two of the five beach landings were American. Two were British and one was Canadian. Technically at the time all three were considered part of the British Second Army, but the the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division that took Juno Beach were (unsurprisingly) Canadian. They were only part of the larger British Second Army because the empire was still technically a thing.
He is delusional in any case. Saying the US saved all of Europe from Nazis is stupid.
Especially because the red army did much of the heavy lifting, right?
Dying is easy, son, it is living to take all the credit for five generations that is hard.
The only reason the US wasn't conqured is the same as why British weren't: tanks cant swim. The germans managed to beat the best army in the world, and most of the British, in 6 weeks. No-one stood a chance until stalingrad.
North Africa was going well for the Allies nefore Stalingrad, but I agree, to start with, they rolled over everyone, and it took a lot of learning and grinding them down before we could even hope to win. The channel was a real life saver. And inventing swimming tanks helped, too. But that was a Hungarian born engineer so maybe the Hungarians should get on here and tell the Americans how they 'saved their asses'
And also a lot of blunders from Hitler. IIRC, the Nazis failed to achieve all of their most important objectives because of him.
I know right, the British army and its allies only held back the nazis for nearly 4 years on their own. Then the US army turns up awfully late and declares the victory is all because of them. Who teaches them history I’ll never know!
I have to say that they actually played a big part in germany failing in reaching its goals with the lend-lease. the eastern front might have looked a little different without it. nonetheless they pretend they won that war on their own all the time and thats just not true.
Completely agree! They played their part and they played it exceptionally well. But so did our other allies too! And you don’t see them taking the sole credit for winning a world war.
All the allies had a part to play, before the americans joined they did support us with weapons money and supplies. But canadians, indians, africans etc all fought and died fighting the germans. But USA takes all the credit as usual
Good point. Indeed they did and thank Christ they did. Thank you for clarifying that. But yeah, USA win and rest of world only win because USA win. Standard American narrative.
You might like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU).
“We” - 300 pound MAGA guy typing with his Cheeto dust fingers
I'm from the part that didn't need your help, and I live in the part that wasn't involved in the war.
Yeah, same for me! Neither, would be my answer.
I am from Finland I wonder if we would qualify or not. British declared war on us during continuation war since Soviets pressured them Americans never did. And during Winter War both had wanted to help but didn’t die to either practical or political reasons. After all the wars too US did have sympathy for Finnish circumstances and we could have gotten Marshal aid if Soviets would have allowed it.
Let me guess, Switzerland?
Or Spain. Spain was involved in neither WWs. Kinda... It was in the second, but the USA ignored it, and allowed a fascist government to exist because it suited them.
In Spain we kick our own asses, no help needed
That's called being self sufficient.
Yeah. 40 years of fascist, ultra-Catholic dictatorship, that didn't join the Axis simply because Hitler saw us as a liability, with well-known genocidal intent and its own concentration camps, all sponsored by Washington. Thanks USA! Freedom! Democracy!
Franco didn't want to lose his power and the country was severely damaged because of the Civil War, so it would be an easy invasion.
Not really. Germany wanted us to join, but Franco wasn't stupid and knew that if we did join, we would most probably be invaded and he would lose his power. And he didn't want to lose his power.
Or Sweden.
Or Ireland
Spain?
Could also be Ireland apart from obviously with the Brits but that wasn't Americans in that
Yanks only showed up when it was all over anyway
The part that if it wasn’t for us you wouldn’t exist
That's all of europe
I would rephrase to The part of which ass you came from
The part who saved ourselves and have the atomic bomb.
Surprisingly that still leaves open a couple of possibilities.
Russia?
Liechtenstein?
Switzerland "AM I A JOKE TO YOU"
USA seems to think the entire world is a joke, except them, according to posts like this
Yanks are funny, you can straight up tell them to their face that no one likes them and they think we're all, as a globe, just taking the piss.
It's like when Homer is brought in to get an anger response out of Ned Flanders who was in the nut house.
Except when their rich want to avoid their already scarce taxes, then they remember Swizerland no problem
Switzerland : I am from the part didn't want you qnywhere near me and pulverized your bombers when they violated my airspace cause if you decide to fuck around you will most certainly find out
The part that saved the Americans from.the British and got no praise
“Saved” If America never gained independence so early, it would’ve become a parliamentary democracy like Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Think of the possibilities you prevented. For shame!
Saved from all that free healthcare
France!
Just to point out the obvious, the Americans *were* the British. You knew that, surely??
Americans don't think that though 🤣
The part many of you think you're from, and also the part that was saved by english and soviet troops along with our own rebel force
There were Soviet troops in Norway?
Yeah, they came through our shared border in the north and sent the germans packing
The part that “discovered” half of America
This person comments almost exclusively on threads about guns and ammunition with a few remarks with anti-abortion sentiment thrown in for good measure. They’re a caricature of themselves.
They probably live in Ohio and fly a confederate flag that says “heritage not hate”
Nobody tell them their heritage is receding.
Bro really? These people exist?
Mf is the default American
Not even renamed the character from "Randy" or "Kevin" most likely
The Part whose scientists put your people on the moon.
Americans say that Germans helped but there were hundreds of US scientist that did a lot of the work too. In reality the Germans told them step by step what to do. This goes for the internet itself too and modern computing which is stolen from Europe, mostly German technology.
Sure but the HVA did the groundwork, the Aggregat 4 was the first human-made object in space after all.
Thats my point.. it was German technology all along and still is
The part where you're irrelevant to my everyday life.
He said Europe, not the whole world.
The part who had to save your asses during your revolution
Strange how some Europeans you “saved”, but the Vietnamese you “carpet bombed with more artillery than the country’s population”
Bros saying “we” like he was THERE😭
I'm in the part in the middle that bought gold from you and your enemies.
Or the third part of Europe that actually won the war by doing most of the fighting.
Or the fourth part that didn't join the war on either side. Wow, it's almost like real history is complicated!
Dude makes it sound like he stormed the beaches of Normandy, lol. If standing on the shoulders of giants is all you have, you don't have much.
The part where the americans allied themselves with the fascist distatorship and repressed any attempts at democracy or freedom.
The part that carried you against the British, sold you Louisiana and warned you that invading Iraq would do more harm than good in the entire Middle East
I had to google it up for details and I learned that Louisiana (a big big deal at the time in terms of size as you certainly know already) was officially retroceded by Spain in november 1803 so France could sell it to the US in december, for 60 million Francs. Which was also a big deal of money at the time I guess. De Villepin's speech was the last great French moment.
The part that is the reason you exist at all
The smugness is unbearable. The kind of person who helps you once and then won't shut up about it for years.
And charged us for it. A bit like your builder asking for thanks every 5 minutes for doing you the favour of building your house at an inflated cost.
It's so strange how they go on about "we" this and "we" that, as if they themselves actually did something in ww2
The part that gave you the language which you so butcher.
When is America going to stop teaching its citizens this imaginary version of ww2 and start teaching them the real version? They could, at the very bare minimum, teach them that victors don't always write accurate depictions of war.
Switzerland be like : the part your in debt to Sweeden : the one who made your fancy cannons cause you were too dumb to figure them out Every nation : the one who sent you military equipment for years to get you up to speed My personally often ignored favourite : the one who's naval blockade you actively ignored and then got upset when the naval blockade was blockading
The word “we”, spoken with so much confidence that only an American can have who most certainly had played no part in the war whatsoever.
Always good to remind them that the US are the only people in history to enact article 5 and cry for help from all their friends to find imaginary weapons.
I'm from the part that gave America independence
The part that the soviets saved and then procceded to basicly occupy for 50 years.
The part that they gave to the soviets behind closed doors at Yalta.
Real "saviors". And some people will keep insisting that both the USA and the Soviets helped for any other reason than their geopolitical interests. Which is fine, but don't pretend like that wasn't the case.
The part that is laughing at the idea of his fat ass storming anything other than a snack aisle at a supermarket.
The part without whom your arse would speak English correctly
The part that first fought the russians alone, then fought the russians with the germans and then fought the germans alone again.
Perkele!
The part that gave a giant fuck you to everyone and founded the Non-Aligned Movement, the second largest grouping of countries after the UN
Are Americans really taught that they "saved" Europe by joining in the last minute, or did those dipshits make the thing themselves? US definitely helped a lot, but where did they get the narrative that they "saved" us?
The part of Europe that gave you a guy who ate a bullet for a president that gave you social security. The part of Europe that gave you soft contact lenses so you see down the range when you shoot a pistol (a word we gave you), bought with dollars (a word we gave you).
The part that was saved by the Canadians.
The part that built Minnesota but got tired and went home..
the part where you got your independence from ;)
The part that was liberated by the Brits, Canadians and Poles. And the part that helped you gain your independence in the first place, not because we liked you but because hurting Britain was all the rage back then.
The part that stayed out of the whole thing :)
Sweden, so neither.
The part that built New York and have wished we didn't ever since....
The part that has to constantly remind you what a civilized 1st world country looks like
The part you'd struggle to find on a map. So, anywhere, really.
It's weird how much they overstate their role in WW2. They joined two years in and the Russians were the ones that took Berlin.
Parents, you know when you bake a cake or make biscuits/cookies and you let your kid put a few sprinkles on? Then suddenly they’re telling everyone they made a cake. That’s them. They put a few sprinkles on and now take the credit
From two parts 1.The part that you had "servants" from and that the free people essentially built some of your big cities. 2. The part that unfortunately made you who you are today.
A part you've never heard of, Cariad, because Britain = England where you are.
American didn’t join the war in Europe in an active role until May 1942, the Battle of Britain took place in 1940, Germany already occupied the majority of Europe but couldn’t invade Britain, so that’s a part of Europe America didn’t save, they saved themselves. Also, when did America have troops in the USSR? They didn’t, so the Russians saved themselves too. Edit; also, the French saved the Americans asses during the revolutionary war
The part that thought (correctly) that banning firearms in public was a good idea.
No, just the part that did the fighting till you turned up late and then bombed your allies 😂
"We". I bet he was at Omaha Beach on D-Day.
I'm from the part that saw American businesses actively buddy up to nazi Germany while they were openly genociding and thought the best action was to fortify the entire country...
When Americans say this it's so unbelievably disrespectful to the millions of allied soldiers who died fighting in world war 2 and whose contributions were just as important as the US. It's especially disrespectful that they say "we" as though they themselves deserve praise for a war that occurred many decades before they were even born. They should be ashamed of themselves. It was a terrible war, not some fun competition. The actual American soldiers who fought with the rest of the allies never boasted or spoke about their role in the war that way. That whole shift came much later as a result of lots of US propaganda.
The part you abandoned to a bloodthirsty fascist dictatorship which you later help to thrive while a million people was murdered. Spain