• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Btw, the democratic tradition in Germany was barely 14 years old

    The SPD was founded 1863. Germany had been a constitutional monarchy with a parliament for quite a while, based on Prussia’s introduction of the thing in 1848. That was introduced not so much by grace of the King but because of the people demanding it.

    And, no, the Americans didn’t have a plan going into Germany, either. Not having plans is kind of their thing. They didn’t even plan on entering the war, remember. I could go into endless detail here but that e.g. VW still exists is due to the Brits, definitely not US policy, and let’s not forget the French keen on overcoming arch enmity and turning it around into European integration.

    We had just come out of commiting the worst genocide in history and most of us cheered for it.

    For claiming to be German you know preciously little German history.

    Under the american occupation, afghan women and minorities enjoyed more protection and participation than they ever had in the last 100 years.

    Yes. And it was a grave mistake to not arm the women. Imagine the Taliban trying to take Kabul if there were two or three women battalions around, very much fighting in self-interest, calling their male colleagues limp-dicked over not putting up a fight.