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  1. bintananth

    How much purchasing power would you be willing to lose to support Ukraine?

    I would like to point out that "not technologically advanced enough" applied to the Allies just as much as it did to the Axis. Japanese torpedoes and optical rangefinders (especially at night) were the best in the world. A WWII Japanese Type 93 torpedo and a modern American Mk.48 ADCAP have...
  2. bintananth

    How much purchasing power would you be willing to lose to support Ukraine?

    It's not as simple as that. The "I like money" you get from Idiocracy and 1910s America was not universal among the wealthy.
  3. bintananth

    How much purchasing power would you be willing to lose to support Ukraine?

    I'm aware of that, but the US public wasn't when the US got dragged into both World Wars.
  4. bintananth

    How much purchasing power would you be willing to lose to support Ukraine?

    Not really. The US public wanted to stay the fuck out of both WWI and WWII but oh no, we weren't left alone and a very grumpy dragon woke up and said "enough of this shit". With WWI it was the Zimmerman Telegram ... which had some German leaders facepalming when they found out about that bit of...
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