Was WWII the only major war under whih there was a clear good side and bad side?
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  Was WWII the only major war under whih there was a clear good side and bad side?
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« Reply #125 on: June 18, 2010, 06:28:30 PM »

Also, if you look to page 209 of Paul Rahe's Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy, you see that Jefferson actually did praise Machiavelli, and that the founding of the Democratic-Republican Party was due to an opposition to the Federalist aristocracy embodied in Hamilton.
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« Reply #126 on: June 22, 2010, 03:12:07 AM »

1. Hitle delcared war on the US.
That's one thing I've never seen explained btw.

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It's more like, while the US and UK involvement was needed, the SOviet Union is who won the war.

As to the general question, I disagree there was a "clear" good side. There was a "clear" bad side along with a murky baddish side, which is different from most wars which just have two murky baddish sides, and there's no denying I would have "taken sides" wherever I was, which is more than can be said of just about any war fought in my lifetime. Which is near enough the original question I suppose.

Hitler wasn't really all that bright in the strategic sense and Germany has never been very skilled at diplomacy (at least not since Bismarck).

I don't think there is very much in the way of a rational explanation, to be honest. I think he wanted to stand with the Japanese or something and in his worldview the Americans probably couldn't be much of a threat anyway.
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