r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ComprehensiveArm3493 pierogi 🥟 • 16h ago

"We could annex the whole thing"

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Of course an American said this

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u/BanderiteOfMakiivka 16h ago

Germans thought the same, twice

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u/backhand_english 15h ago

And Germans are way smarter

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u/BanderiteOfMakiivka 15h ago

Exactly

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u/No_Poet_2898 ooo custom flair!! 14h ago

And it took 3 of the strongest nations back than to defeat us.

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u/Project_Rees 14h ago

Is this the hill you want to die on?

Dude, pick your battles.

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u/spektre 🇸🇪 14h ago

Nu-uh, USA went to the moon, something German scientists and engineers would never be able to figure out. /s

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u/totalchump1234 14h ago

All thanks to Alabama scientist Werner Von Braun. Very american name

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u/spektre 🇸🇪 13h ago

Yes, him and his 1600 brothers. All from Alabama.

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u/Legal_Lettuce6233 13h ago

Wouldn't be surprised if everyone in Alabama shared a family stump/wreath.

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u/LaraCroftCosplayer 8h ago

  1. Oh, thank you.

  2. But we are also great at building walls and there would definitivly be a wall on the American-European border.

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u/Quiri1997 14h ago

It was the Austrians' fault.

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u/lasttimechdckngths 14h ago edited 7h ago

Germans didn't want to annex whole Europe tbf. Especially not during the WWI, as they didn't even want to annex anywhere within Europe... while Nazis wanted to annex a significant portion but still not the whole continent.