Was WWII the only major war under whih there was a clear good side and bad side?

[minionofmidas]

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.

[minionofmidas]

Aside from these various dictators, you might also be interested to know that Machiavelli's works exerted a fair influence on the American founding fathers and that the second amendment, in particular, has its origins in Machiavellian thought (via James Harrington and other English republicans).

Funny, I bought a copy of The Prince from a used bookstore, and it said this in the introduction by Christian Gauss:

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Someone who's capable of putting that last sentence in the same paragraph as the other ones is clearly capable of anything.

[minionofmidas]

Aside from these various dictators, you might also be interested to know that Machiavelli's works exerted a fair influence on the American founding fathers and that the second amendment, in particular, has its origins in Machiavellian thought (via James Harrington and other English republicans).

Funny, I bought a copy of The Prince from a used bookstore, and it said this in the introduction by Christian Gauss:

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Someone who's capable of putting that last sentence in the same paragraph as the other ones is clearly capable of anything.

Did anybody understand what I meant? Because I myself had to read the post twice to understand it these many months after.

If Macchiavelli had no influence on Jefferson whatsoever, nothing he said can have possibly concerned Jefferson.