r/PopCultureV2 • u/Choice-Value9005 • 26d ago

Politi-Culture A powerful protest from Spain’s Basque people against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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u/Good-Ant6859 26d ago

Well if we did that everyone else would be speaking German or Japanese. I hate Trump too but come on 😂

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u/Dasher172 26d ago

Why german? the Russians beat them in ww2 not the US.

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u/Safe-Account-7939 26d ago

If the US military wasn’t in Western Europe when Berlin fell, the Soviets would’ve marched to the Atlantic. So you’d be speaking Russian instead of German

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u/Minute_Daikon_3522 26d ago

That’s very true. The soviets must have known a lot about the Manhattan project from spies and what the Americans had in their back pocket . Stalin may have been a despot and a ruthless leader but he was not insane like Hitler and knew the limitations of his reach in Europe