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| Mr Tom | Jul 18 2010, 01:08 PM Post #31 |
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| Liroro | Jul 18 2010, 01:21 PM Post #32 |
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![]() Anyways, Canada hates the French. One of the many reasons why Quebec is a separatist province. |
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| Mr Tom | Jul 18 2010, 01:29 PM Post #33 |
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I thought it was just because the French like complaining about le English. |
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| Liroro | Jul 18 2010, 01:37 PM Post #34 |
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and because everyone hates them. Quebecois are assholes. e: L'ANGLAIS |
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| Macht | Jul 18 2010, 01:41 PM Post #35 |
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British Canada is always free to join MURICA. :D |
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| Mr Tom | Jul 18 2010, 01:55 PM Post #36 |
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Are you a Canuck L? The United States America; the British Empire since 1945. |
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| Macht | Jul 18 2010, 02:02 PM Post #37 |
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More like Britain's been our bitches since 1941 formally, 1917 informally or 1931 depending on interpretation. |
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| Liroro | Jul 18 2010, 02:09 PM Post #38 |
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I live in Ontario, but I'm not Canadian, no. |
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| Mr Tom | Jul 18 2010, 02:37 PM Post #39 |
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Nah 1945 Macht, 1917 we were still in a position to finance the war within the space of 30 years. World War 2 ended Britain been the heart of the British Empire. You lot pulled what we did in the Napoleonic Wars, do bugger all yourself for most of the war then join for the most important part XD. |
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| Macht | Jul 18 2010, 02:57 PM Post #40 |
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I spent an entire year of learning American economic history, so please. But by 1917/18, the Allied Powers exhausted their reserves while the Krauts easily had an army twice their size coming back from the Eastern Front. Even with the expulsion of the Kaiser, the provisional German Republic would have realized they could force the Allies onto their terms instead of surrendering. Not to mention by the latter part of the war, the US was supplying much of the weaponry and armaments to you guys. By 1917 the US had a greater production of steel than the British, Germans and French combined (in part thanks to JP Morgan and Carnegie). And being able to finance? By the 30s, Britain alone owed the United States 4.4 billion dollars. In fact, the reparations Germany had to paid back never went to France, or Britain - it went straight to us because the entire Entente owed the United States money. It got so bad during the 20s, we were going to dump your own currencies for failure to repay our loans. Lest we forget how Britain and France indirectly put Germany in such a stronger position by breaking up Eastern Europe into weak nations, alienating the USSR and ultimately allowing the path for Adolf Hitler to occur. Oh and also not really putting Germany back in their place when it became clear they were militarizing well before Hitler. As for World War II ~ I don't even need to say anything. |
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| Liroro | Jul 18 2010, 03:00 PM Post #41 |
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Probably because America was too lazy to do anything during wars until it somehow involved them. Also, lol @ "I spent an entire year of learning American economic history, so please." We all know the American education system is vastly superior! |
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| Conflict | Jul 18 2010, 03:00 PM Post #42 |
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YEAAAAAH, AMERICA YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH |
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| Liroro | Jul 18 2010, 03:01 PM Post #43 |
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world's reply :
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| Macht | Jul 18 2010, 03:07 PM Post #44 |
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MURICA'S RESPONSE:
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| Mr Tom | Jul 18 2010, 03:13 PM Post #45 |
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The Germans were starving and if you ignore you compare the British Army to the German Army on a man to man basis, Britain was doing better. Germans were unable to supply their own troops properly because of the Naval Blockade imposed by the Royal Navy. They didn't have an army twice the size coming over Westward partly because they daren't risk the Russians potentially re-entering the war (and they couldn't rely on the Austrians in that event) The issue with the finance had more to do with the bust and general incompetence in the Government. Don't try pulling the American economical history bollocks on the military side of a discussion on World War 1, it doesn't work like that. Germany entered a war for them had to be finished as soon as. At most it was 2 million men coming over in all departments including logistics. Unlike World War 2 Britain had vast reserves of manpower she could reliably call upon and did. At least some German generals recognised as far back as the early 1900s that if they tried to win a war of attrition they'd lose. World War 2 by then we were buggered out. I think the country has became too frightened of war after the first world war, so much suffering; America never suffered the horrors of the trenches on the same scale as Europe. Why you assume everytime we have this discussion that the Germans in anyway were able to effectively use any reserves they had amazes me they couldn't feed their troops properly most of the war let alone by that stage. If your wanting me to say we needed Americas manpower reserves to win then your not going to get it, the Battle of Amiens settled the outcome of the war for 1918. Economically your right we needed America to win and feed the civilians back home, in terms of military action your history books need revising on the issue. |
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