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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
Oh man... WW2 was more than 'saving private Ryan'.. it was VERY complex political, before - during - and after, on both sides and internal between the axes and allies.
Anyway, I would say the last "real" war, really worth for other countries to interfere, was on Balkan in the 90's. As NATO and UN soldier, it made sense to go there.
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The nonsense that led up to World War 2 WAS political, and the result of all of us not even beginning to fathom what global war meant, I'll give you that.
The simple fact; that no one grasped at the time, was that we were still all fighting WW1. Nothing had changed man; the same shit that had pissed off Germany and Japan 15 years before was STILL pissing them off. Japan was actually the only one who never rested on their laurels and became complacent. I mean fuck dude, they were kicking the shit out of China.
What started the fracas of "WW2", and made the whole conflict global again is easy to understand.
I.E.: the German anger over Versailles, the Japanese were a little miffed over us cutting their oil supplies off, our OWN policies of isolationism. Etc, etc, etc.
We can go into the intracacies of what LED to war for weeks; but who fucking cares.
That's not what I'm referring to man.
What I said was that WW2 was the last war FOUGHT in black and white. Surely you can grasp that concept.