by Morley Evans
The statement Rick Sanchez makes cannot be accurate. The total number of Soviet and Chinese military deaths cannot be included in the total number of all deaths worldwide because their total is larger than the worldwide total.
Our allies included the communist Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin and the Republic of China led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek who was an anti-communist who was fighting a civil war with the communists, led by Mao Tse Tung, at the same time.
The worldwide total cannot include the Soviet Union and China. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union and China together did pay the price for WW II in blood and treasure. Both were allies of the West. Wikipedia has copious data.
WW I
As Sanchez says, "everyone else" does include Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan — Emphasising the enormity of the contributions of China and the Soviet Union. Both have been ignored by the other "victors" who immediately substituted them as their new mortal threat so War could continue.
DON'T BE FOOLED. Everyone loves war. They always have. We are not the "good guys". There are no "good guys". Unless we stop, we will be waging war until we are are all gone. Homo Sapiens (Latin for "wise man" ho ho ho) is his own worst enemy.
Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trial:
Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler summed it up in War is a Racket.
Our allies included the communist Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin and the Republic of China led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek who was an anti-communist who was fighting a civil war with the communists, led by Mao Tse Tung, at the same time.
The worldwide total cannot include the Soviet Union and China. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union and China together did pay the price for WW II in blood and treasure. Both were allies of the West. Wikipedia has copious data.
WW I
As Sanchez says, "everyone else" does include Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan — Emphasising the enormity of the contributions of China and the Soviet Union. Both have been ignored by the other "victors" who immediately substituted them as their new mortal threat so War could continue.
DON'T BE FOOLED. Everyone loves war. They always have. We are not the "good guys". There are no "good guys". Unless we stop, we will be waging war until we are are all gone. Homo Sapiens (Latin for "wise man" ho ho ho) is his own worst enemy.
Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trial:
Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler summed it up in War is a Racket.
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