European’s Should Remember

[Bush92]

The sacrifice of America was great...

 

[JakeStarkey]

Indeed, and Trump pissed over all of that yesterday at Helsinki with Putin.

 

[tinydancer]

Indeed, and Trump pissed over all of that yesterday at Helsinki with Putin.

Considering that Russia at the time was our ally in the war and that the Russian sacrifice was great, how on earth did Trump "piss all over" America's sacrifice?

FYI: Great article Jake. The Soviet experience with the Nazis will explain the sheer horror of many Russians witnessing Kiev turned over to Bandera lovers and admirers.

WWII Soviet Experience
The Soviet Experience in World War Two

By JT Dykman
Overview
Americans have little conception of the Soviet Union's experience in World War II. No cities in the United States were besieged, not a single bomb was dropped by an enemy airplane on any of our 48 states, no part of our population was enslaved, starved or murdered, and not one village, town or city was completely destroyed or even heard a shot fired in anger.



About the only way we can begin to understand is through imagination. The distance between Moscow and Berlin is about the same as that separating New York City and Atlanta.

Imagine twenty million people being violently killed between those two American cities in four years. The Eastern Front in the war wound like a serpent from Sevastopol on the Black Sea to Leningrad on the Baltic. Including the twists, bulges and turns of the line of battle at the height of German penetration, November 1942, the line would have stretched from Baltimore to Cheyenne, Wyoming. In place of Leningrad, can you fathom Chicago under bitter siege and constant shelling for 900 days? Is it possible for us to mentally picture thousands of dead bodies lying on the frozen streets between Lake Shore Drive and Evanston? Could we endure seeing a million people die, mostly from starvation, during the Chicago siege or begin to fathom our own citizens engaging in cannibalism for profit? At the same time of the Chicago siege think of Cincinnati becoming a battleground such as Stalingrad where not a single structure was left habitable and several hundred thousand soldiers killed each other in the process of leveling the city. Mentally switch names such as Smolensk, Karkov, Minsk, Kiev and Rostov for American cities and picture them destroyed and silenced. If such images are possible for us to even conceive, we can begin to understand why Americans refer to the conflict as World War Two, but the Russians universally refer to it as the Great Patriotic War.



The Numbersi
The populations of the United States and the USSR were about the same, 130,000,000, when both nations went to war within six months of each other in 1941. To Americans, we were sending our boys to fight a foreign war that we'd never experience. To the Soviets, it was an up front and personal war of monumental savagery. America would lose slightly more than 400,000 soldiers (killed or missing) and almost no civilians during World War II and the USSR, depending on which historian you believe, would lose at least 11,000,000 soldiers (killed and missing) as well as somewhere between 7,000,000 and 20,000,000 million of its civilian population during the Great Patriotic War.

More at link. Worth the read.

Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College - WWII Soviet Experience

 

[frigidweirdo]

The sacrifice of America was great...

It's not the Europeans that are causing the problems.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Alt Right America do not understand that Putin and their support of Trump are the problems with a great America.

 

[Bleipriester]

The sacrifice of America was great...

Ours´ too.

 

[Bush92]

Indeed, and Trump pissed over all of that yesterday at Helsinki with Putin.

How?

 

[Bush92]

The sacrifice of America was great...

It's not the Europeans that are causing the problems.

Pay their fair share into NATO.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

European’s?

Or Europeans.....

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yurpee-ons.

 

[Bush92]

European’s?

Or Europeans.....

All NATO members.

 

[frigidweirdo]

The sacrifice of America was great...

It's not the Europeans that are causing the problems.

Pay their fair share into NATO.

The US pays LESS to NATO per capita than other countries.

Funding NATO

This is this year's spending.

Imagine the US paid $220 million.

Population of 325 million. Each person pays 67 cents.

United Kingdom, population 65 million. Each person plays $1.60

Turkey, population 80 million. Each person pays 53 cents.

Spain, population 40 million. Each person pays $1.37

Slovenia, population 2 million. Each person pays $1

I could keep going, but the US pays more than Turkey which has a GDP of $26,000 compared to the US's $59,000. Slovenia is $34,000 and plays nearly double what the US pays.

So don't give me that crap that the US pays more than everyone else. Per capita the US pays less any country based on per capita and GDP, pays less than most on per capita.