Of all the countries in the world, only three backwaters still use the archaic Imperial system of weights and measures:
- Liberia
- Myanmar (a.k.a. “the country formerly known as Burma”)
- United States of America
I say we let them get some decent governments first, then worry about getting them on the metric system.
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@Morgan
About 75% German soldiers killed in the war died on the Eastern Front.
The Soviets took Berlin.
The Soviets liberated most of the camps.
The Soviets killed the most Germans.
And they did all this despite that moronic tyrant Stalin “purging” a large part of the army because he was a paranoid dick.
America helped a lot but most of their efforts were in the pacific fighting the Japanese.
As a US citizen, let me apologize for morgan. There is just so much ignorance in this country. He probably voted for Bush both times, too.
…sigh….
Okay because the U.S doesn’t have a decent gov. Jelly much.
The whole world would be under a communist regime without America’s help. We also made huge contribution to the United Nations and actually had the idea for a peace keeping organization when Woodrow Wilson went to Paris to create a treaty after WWI. His idea (which was called Wilson’s 14 points) would have prevented WWII if his points had been accepted. The other allies; however, wanted Germany to pay for their actions during WWI. So the others didn’t accept all of his points and they forced the war-torn Germany to pay reparations which would starve the German economy and allow a dynamic leader to step in. This allowed Hitler to step in with hardly any opposition from the rest of the world. If the allies had accepted Wilson points, WWII wouldn’t have occurred and six million Jewish people wouldn’t have been killed and Russia wouldn’t have had a revolution and the Soviet Union wouldn’t have formed. Without the Soviet Union, China would have stayed Nationalist, Korea would have stayed whole, we would have avoided the Cuban missile crisis, and the entire world would be years ahead technologically. Without the United States, the world would have been conquered by Germany by the twenties and the entire world would be a place without creativity, free speech, expression, or anything the U.S. stands for.
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