80 Years After The Allies Won World War
II, U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding European Authoritarianism
The Federalist,
by
Hayden Daniel
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
5/9/2025 6:00:03 AM
May 8, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ triumph over Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. Through Lend Lease and the destroyers-for-bases scheme, we had become involved in the European war much earlier than Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941.
American boots on the ground proved decisive in the Western Theater, from North Africa to Italy to Normandy to Germany itself. And American industry and money proved to be an overwhelming advantage, pumping out a nearly inexhaustible supply of matériel for the Allied cause.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
privateer 5/9/2025 6:37:29 AM (No. 1947347)
We feared that Europe would fall under the hammer and sickle. It appears that instead it's going to be under the moon and crescent. Europe is like a freed slave, that after a long period of freedom, goes out and finds a new, brutal master.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/9/2025 7:10:38 AM (No. 1947353)
"our time as Europe’s piggy bank and protector must end"
Especially since we are assuming massive debt, $36 trillion, to accomplish it. This amounts to foolish and unproductive efforts on all types of things being done in the world that we are footing the bill for. The rest of the world is partying, paying people not to work, supporting 4 day work weeks, paying the bills for migrants who are not working, and much more and the CHECK for all this is a significant part of the US debt, covered up in transferring things like defence spending to our shoulders.
If the world wants to be stupid, they should pay their own bills. That would also cause a big wake up when their chickens come home to roost and maybe their voters would realize that there is no longer a free lunch. It's easy to be generous to others when YOU don't have to foot the bill.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
billa57 5/9/2025 7:17:34 AM (No. 1947358)
Not only authoritarianism, but also socialism. Authoritarianism and socialism = Communism. Time to reverse that. Ask yourself, who else other than President Trump would be able to that?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/9/2025 7:27:09 AM (No. 1947367)
We won the Cold War. Only to have authoritarianism switch sides from East to West Europe! Until Trump/Vance pointed it out this wasn't even stated.
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Cut that flow of taxpayer money to them, spend here where it belongs now. The handout needs to be over.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/9/2025 7:40:52 AM (No. 1947380)
Is there any country we don't support? We're basically funding other people's socialism and communism; it needs to cease and desist. NOW!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sw penn 5/9/2025 7:47:58 AM (No. 1947390)
If you thought Nazi Germany was fun,
just wait the the nuclear islamic Germany sequel;
that you're funding...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TCloud 5/9/2025 7:49:53 AM (No. 1947392)
EU is EZ Meat for them becoming The New Caliphate!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/9/2025 8:21:30 AM (No. 1947414)
So, no, not all cultures are equal. And therefore, no, we shouldn't and won't fund the crappy, dangerous ones. Any other questions?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/9/2025 9:36:42 AM (No. 1947440)
You have not seen anything yet! Wait until they roll completely over and cheerfully submit to the demands that they become Islamist Caliphates! The question is which country will have “the honor” of becoming the first such Caliphate, many say Ireland, but maybe the U.K.? No doubt that issue will become reality within ten years or as soon as the foreign origin Islamic populations hit the boiling points, because the most important thing to Islamists is their religion, and not the allegiance to a supposedly secular President or Christian King or Queen.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/9/2025 10:10:37 AM (No. 1947458)
Americans are a very generous people....and Europe has been counting on that for years....NOW WE have leadership that says...."Not this time"...and is pulling in the USA checkbook....the pentagon is in an uproar about the industrial military machine running out of wars to supply...it's their bread and butter....and Europe trying to continue the Iranian war is a perfect example of this lust for power of the purse....and Mr. Z is to stupid to see it!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/9/2025 10:29:16 AM (No. 1947477)
One would think that Europe would take the time to pause and say "Thank You" once in a while. They are spoiled brats complaining that their allowance has been decreased. We won't hear from them until the muslim hordes are pushing them into the ocean. I hope we can say "we'll get back to you on that."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/9/2025 11:43:12 AM (No. 1947530)
Actually, #12, a lot of individual Europeans DO thank Americans, especially in relation to WW2 actions. Certainly they do in Normandy.
In the 2000s, 60 years after the war, a tiny, tiny village in Normandy, prehaps 40 people or so, funded a fine, expensive polished granite monument in their town, next to their church where two American conscientious objectors, who joined the US Army, and volunteered to be paratroop medics, converted the tiny, ancient local church into an aid station. Those two collected wounded men, American an German and brought them to the church and treated them, saving many lives. And while the control of the church area switched from American back to German, they remained, and continued to take in wounded.
These heroes were recognized mostly by French people who had been born after the war.
The American paratroopers came back, year after year and helped fund replacing the destroyed stained glass windows with new ones, which the people dedicated to the liberators from the sky. And you can see the bloodstains on the pews, the hole in the inner roof where a mortar round dropped in amongst the wounded.....and was a dud, tossed out still smoking with no injuries.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/angovilleauplain-church
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/angovilleauplain-church
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 5/9/2025 11:51:00 AM (No. 1947538)
More on one of the paratrooper medics, Robert E. Wright. He was there when the monument was dedicated in 2002, and apparently is now buried at the church and Angoville-au-Plain.
https://screamingducks.com/the-division/501st-pir/robert-e-wright/
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/9/2025 1:01:40 PM (No. 1947580)
#13/14 - Thank you so much for the links.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/9/2025 1:23:07 PM (No. 1947596)
The Marshall Plan is over. Most of the European Union we now subsidize were on the other side: France (Vichy), Norway (Quisling), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark (surrendered), Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine (Bandera), Italy, Germany. These moochers should hang their heads in shame. Today is Victory Day in Russia, who lost 27 million dead fighting with the US and England 80 years ago.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/9/2025 2:39:48 PM (No. 1947618)
#12 They are right up there with Mexico whose people living here illegally flip the bird to Americans for all their benefits. And it goes on the front page of newspapers.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
danu 5/9/2025 4:53:00 PM (No. 1947675)
it is the e-unuchs who wave the gavel and sickle
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chumley 5/9/2025 10:29:10 PM (No. 1947777)
A neighbor has one of the lend/lease rifles we made and loaned (gave) the Brits. To all the world it looks like a typical garden variety #4 Mk 1 rifle in .303 brit, but stamped on the receiver is "US Property". He just calls it the Army gun and he wont part with it. Its a piece of history.
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