Germans have lost faith in the US, survey reveals | dpa international
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Three quarters of Germans consider the United States to be an unreliable partner, according to a survey published on Thursday.

78% of those queried currently consider France to be a trustworthy partner and 74% consider the UK to be a trustworthy partner.

According to the survey, 40% consider Ukraine to be a trustworthy partner, while 48% of respondents believe that Germany cannot trust Ukraine.

  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I don’t know what you’re referring to with “selling weapons to the nazis”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany

    Sorry, converted factories in nazi germany to make weapons, while also continuing to sell nazi germany materials and financial services integral to their effort.

    Same with praising fascism

    He was literally Time’s Man Of The Year in 1938; fascism was seen as the answer to communism.

    USSR wasn’t going to let go of what they had occupied without it becoming ideologically aligned with them

    It was ideologically aligned with them because they liberated the people and increased their standards of living by simply removing the Japanese and holding real elections.

    South Korea could not be allowed democracy until like the 90s because the US-backed regime would immediately be ousted and probably executed for putting Japanese collaborators in positions of power and massacring entire villages due to concerns they would (rightfully) side with the communists when they invaded the north.

    other side of that was still generally worse

    Yeah no, the US was literally genocidal in Korea and Indonesia and Vietnam. The singular time that the US was not worse than what we were fighting was when we ended up opposed to the nazis.

    • 73ms@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Sorry, converted factories in nazi germany to make weapons, while also continuing to sell nazi germany materials and financial services integral to their effort.

      Where in particular do you see weapons factories mentioned in that? Some businesses continuing to operate in Nazi Germany, sure. Fairly far from the initial claim though.

      He was literally Time’s Man Of The Year in 1938; fascism was seen as the answer to communism.

      Time magazine man of the year has never been about making an endorsement. He wasn’t portrayed as an answer to communism in the article but as a threat: https://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/hitler/sources/30s/391time/391timemanyear.htm

      It was ideologically aligned with them because they liberated the people and increased their standards of living by simply removing the Japanese and holding real elections.

      Yeah… that’s not at all accurate. There were no real elections. A hand-picked leader who was loyal to Moscow by the Soviets. Communist as a requirement. Wasn’t great from the start and especially in the long run North Korea really has in fact proven to be the worse option…