One important guy you forgot: The first guy who fenced in an area, sat himself in the middle and said “this is mine”.
Until you give away all your possessions, including your house, and you go live in the forest, shut up Falk.
@ “better than they were”. Well, surely better than “right after the war” or “during late of the war”…. and i don’t think you like our pacificism of the moment as “better”.
Better, as in economies rivaling the US (which like it or not is a “superpower”)
And in the case of Germany, better than they were before the war as well (after WWI they were pathetic until Hitler, and unless you like fascism ( :wink: Mike) they were still not good at that time either)
Janus… Jp was already bottled up by the time Hiroshima happened… in fact the to brass said they would have surrendered by dec. 1945… we rebuilt them, but only after we killed half of them
yes…
… the US does go in and bomb the hell out of every1, but then it rebuilds them, and they become better than they were (Germany, Japan).
like I said.