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The POWs didn’t get treated very well. Apparently it took a very long time for my uncle to recover. I don’t know what camp he was in or what American unit liberated the camp.

Nobody said the Allies fought the war to save the Jews Dinar. Netanyahu didn’t say that either, otherwise I wouldn’t have a quarrel. Netanyahu said ‘nobody came to our aid’ in reference to the Holocaust. That is demonstrably false irrespective of the motivation of the allies. My uncle was in the British army and was captured by the Nazis fighting his way up Italy, he spent the rest of the war in a Nazi POW camp. The Americans weren’t fighting the war to save my uncle, but it was the ‘yanks’ as he called them, who liberated his POW camp and provided food and medical assistance - he was 7 stone and weeks from death. He was forever grateful to the Americans. And that’s the problem I have with his comments. Unbelievably ungrateful. You and others have focused on motivation of the war and not the outcomes. The Jews of Europe were saved by the allies in same way that my uncle was saved from starvation in a POW camp by the Americans, even if the war wasn’t about either of them.

What’s the argument? That the allies should have diverted bombers to bomb the concentration camps?

People from New Zealand, to India and Canada were involved the in the war before the US joined. The theatre of war was also multi-continent before the US joined. I get what you are saying but your arguing that we refuse a date well agreed upon.

I do think a lot of this is coming from the current difficulties with Biden.

Kristallnacht, which I admit I had not heard of, is not the Holocaust. I said earlier that many Jews found refugee in countries like the UK and US (and others) before the war began - is that not aid? I didn’t say the war was started to save the Jews - it couldn’t have been since the Holocaust occurred after the war began. The claim Netanyahu made was in reference to the Holocaust (from late 1941), of which he said ‘nobody came to our aid’. Yet it was the Allies who liberated the Jews from concentration camps, ended the Holocaust, and saved what was left of the European Jews. As I stated, Netanyahu’s comments are ungrateful and disrespectful of those ‘gentiles’ who laid down their lives to defeat the Nazis.

That’s not what happened. The timeline was World War Two started in 1939 and the Holocaust began in 1941. War therefore had already begun. Unless you believe the allies could have performed a miracle and rapidly won what more could have been done? Without the war waged by the allies few European Jews would have survived because it was the allies that stopped the Holocaust. So sure, keep believing nobody came to the Jews aid, the fact is that many are alive today only because of those ‘untrustworthy’ gentiles (Netanyahu’s words) in WW2.

I’m all for promoting the idea of helping yourself but not by shitting on the memory of the allied soldiers that saved what was left of European Jews from extermination. World War Two had already begun when the Holocaust started in late 1941 and when the Final Solution was a policy of Germany in 1942. Prior to that, when the Jews were being discriminated against, many left Germany and came West as refugees to the UK or the US. Whatever the motivations for WW2 beginning, claiming that there was no party coming to their aid is wrong. There were millions coming to their aid. There was no Holocaust when the war started.

He’s not making an accurate statement. Millions died slowly clawing back territory from the Nazis and he’s in a podium claiming nobody came to help them? How many European Jews would be if not for the effort of the allies? It’s ungrateful and downright disrespectful to the cemeteries full of brave men:

I admit to be to be angered by this pricks comments. Referring to the Holocaust he claims “no nation came to our aid”. It’s an astonishing attempt to rewrite history.

Yes, crazy performance but I understand that he kept his fund on the smaller side deliberately. His methods and strategy might not have worked at scale.

I’ve no idea on any of the those questions. Simply saying that the tweet might not be the bull story it first appears to be.

Is this supposed to be bullish? Each of the hoorahs ending in disaster.

Exactly

That I’ve noticed it’s price action leads the general market ever so slightly - I not recently.

Interesting thread. And as with other commentary it’s not possible to know what details are true and what are fake.

I too think most use cases don’t make sense but there are a lot of crypto believers, and it even has some buy in from wallstreet. Crypto does seem to be market leading at this minute - so that’s a use.

You are mostly pleasant Luca, to your credit.

The war is dragging on because the Ukrainians don’t want to be dominated by the Russians, and the Russians would like to take over all of Ukraine. No further explanation is required. When I say it’s irrelevant who the war benefits I’m specifically referring to your insinuation that it’s the US causing the war to drag on because it suits America. Bullshit. It would suit America and Europe just fine if Russia didn’t start the war in the first place. Plenty of people cared about Ukraine before the invasion in 2022. I remember a tense meeting with Obama and Putin after Russia invaded Ukraine about a decade ago. It’s convenient for you to ignore such concerns but it’s also ironic that it’s people like you that also simultaneously claim that it was the West’s meddling in the Ukrainian’s Orange revolution that started all this. You can’t have it both ways, the West not caring, but also caring enough to meddle. Pick one.

+30% today

I really dislike that the Fed is what’s moving this market. All that seems to matter is read the inflation tea leaves, or rate cuts signals from powell, or market responding to a 9,871st fed speech of the week. And it will end up being a sell the first rate cut bs too.

Some names in there I didn’t expect. Will have to look at them later:

Kinda feels like a bit of a top here. As pointless as it is thinking about all this.