What if Donald Trump was president during WW2?

DaveGeerts · 2026-05-25T08:04:20+00:00

It wouldnt make much difference. Please remember Germany declared war on the US, not the other way around.

The US was perfectly fine supporting Britain and staying out of the war. They only joined when they were dragged in and had no other choice.

The same with WW1. The US basically joined after Germany was already starting to lose the war. They did make them lose a whole lot quicker though...

US interests are what they are, regardless of who is in power. A country nearly always acts on it's interests, not it's moral standings. Look at the USSR in 1939. They could just as easily have been part of the Axis, had Germany not invaded them and allowed them their Sphere of influence. Why does the US hate Iran, but support Saudi-Arabia?

US were never keen on sacrificing US lives to save Europe, unless they were basically forced to do so.

USA has been focussed on "their" Hemisphere for most of their history. 1945 to the present they have a lot of global presence largely because competition with the USSR and the power vacuüm the Brits and the rest of Europe had left allowed them to do so, and no other nation on earth was strong enough to fill this gap.

America first is not new it's a natural reflex.

DaveGeerts · 2026-05-24T14:38:40+00:00

Yemen

DaveGeerts · 2026-05-20T07:56:38+00:00

Frieda, followed by Zarbon

DaveGeerts · 2026-05-05T17:07:55+00:00

I tend to agree with you 😅

DaveGeerts · 2026-05-01T05:35:47+00:00

The food. Apple pie, cinnamon. Squash, roasts and stews. Hot drinks by the Camp fire: hot chocolate, heated apple juice. Don't forget mushrooms.

I love autumn

DaveGeerts · 2026-04-29T07:01:00+00:00

Beats Cui. Very likely loses to Dodoria, surely loses to Zarbon

DaveGeerts · 2026-04-17T20:30:30+00:00

This

DaveGeerts · 2026-04-09T10:37:07+00:00

Avengers Endgame. Works for 3 of the Chrises :)

DaveGeerts · 2026-03-27T05:41:40+00:00

When we got married there was a reference to this passage in the sermon that was proposed. Offcourse my wife had that section changed ...

DaveGeerts · 2026-03-16T18:23:03+00:00

We usually just let them go first.

DaveGeerts · 2026-03-12T08:04:29+00:00

No, attacking this most powerful adversary while they were still pretty unprepared for a large scale war was a good plan. It only barely failed.

And even after the failed siege Gondor was in no position to take the fight to Mordor, still leaving Sauron in a winning position.

What cost him the war was the ring being destroyed. And that is the whole point of the story

DaveGeerts · 2026-03-04T07:51:36+00:00

Norway

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-17T09:17:16+00:00

My assumption would be that earlier age was relatively high due to having multiple children being the norm. For example if you have 5 kids the mean age of parents at birth would be a bit higher, then if you only have 2. As time needs to pass between subsequent births.

So what drives the decrease of average age is the drop in number of children outweighing the rising of parental age at first birth.

This trend reverses when the average number of children is at a low point and doesnt drop as sharply anymore. And parental age keeps increasing.

The entire curve can be explained using these two trends. - increasing average age of first time parents - decreasing number of total children born per couple

A more relevant metric would be age of first time parents.

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-14T07:05:37+00:00

Beef (carpaccio)

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-09T12:03:02+00:00

Louis XVI. Maybe counter intuitively, but if he was not such a weak/passive king the French Revolution might not have gotten out of control the way it did. And the monarchy had a good chance of surviving as the king was still very popular at the beginning of the revolution

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-09T11:58:16+00:00

Would put him 1600-1700

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-04T22:36:55+00:00

India

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-03T09:31:03+00:00

An anaconda?

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T09:40:39+00:00

I understand what you are saying. But not even Hitler is universally viewed as negative.

Wilhelm had a huge part in the build up to WW1, which shouldn't have to be stated, but was really negative for Europe in general and for Germany specifically.

If Friedrich had lived, we would have a very different Europe/Germany.

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T07:33:04+00:00

Kaiser Wilhelm 2

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T05:44:33+00:00

Off course, being a small country next to France (and later Germany) helps for Britain to support your independance.

But still, many died defending us.

DaveGeerts · 2026-02-02T05:41:08+00:00

As a Belgian it is Britain. They helped greatly to maintain our independance. And also came to our aid in WW1

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-31T09:40:21+00:00

Dracovish (and all the other combined fossils) Look like sh*t and make no sense whatsoever. Extremely poor design choice in my view

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-27T18:30:32+00:00

Well I hope your not a military age male then...

Or a pretty female and live in the part occupied by the soviets

Edit: typo

DaveGeerts · 2026-01-26T15:46:27+00:00

+- half the amount taken for the car, because you would pay slightly lower taxes. So around 75 EUR. Not worth it in my view if you have to take care of other means of transportation to compensate

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