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WW2 as a just war is only true to an extent. To an Indian, an Arab or an African, it was not a war of liberation.

Let's not forget that Britain worried about the loss of its colonies, that the Soviet Union started and ended the war as an invader, that France was as worried about the socialists at home as they were about the Nazis at the border, that Paris was liberated by colonial troops, but it's the Europeans who got a parade on the Champs Elysées, that everyone bombed civilians, that victors made immoral concessions in preparation for the next war, that the faith of entire nations was decided on a napkin in Potsdam.

War is messy. Geopolitics are rarely a history of good guys and bad guys.



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