[dqpb]

The US and Germany are allies. In fact, I believe “German” is the largest ancestry group in the US.

Besides which, it’s extremely common for entities to invest in mutually beneficial agreements with other entities.

[qiskit]

> The US and Germany are allies.

An ally doesn't firebomb a nation, murder thousands of innocent people and forcibly occupy it. Germany is a vassal.

> In fact, I believe “German” is the largest ancestry group in the US.

Who cares? We are not a german nation. We are an anglo nation. Germans don't have much political power in the US. If they did, we would have been allied with germany during ww2.

[astrange]

Australia is an Anglo nation that thinks they're us. We're a German nation that thinks we're British.

The state we occupied doesn't exist anymore unless you think we're going to re-invade Germany and Japan from our bases there.

[qiskit]

> Australia is an Anglo nation that thinks they're us.

No. Australians think they are british.

> We're a German nation that thinks we're British.

No. We are an anglo nation. We speaking german right now? Don't think so.

> The state we occupied doesn't exist anymore unless you think we're going to re-invade Germany and Japan from our bases there.

Re-invade? For what? We already are occupying them.

Yours is the most bizarre and nonsensical comment I've read in a while.

[colordrops]

This idea that policy should be set based on a grossly oversimplified wrapping up of a huge surface area of agreements into the term "ally" and vague notions of ethnic similarity needs to die.

It gives the ruling class a mechanism to excuse war crimes of our supposed "allies" and drop bombs on supposed "enemies" for perceived minor infractions.

[dqpb]

I agree, and this is not an argument I would normally make.

But I think it’s the quality of response the parent deserved, given their ridiculously hyperbolic framing of “a foreign occupying force”.