• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    to temporary truce for 4 years from 1941 to 1945.

    Do nations typically put aside differences to make temporary truces with co-belligerents of the nations they’re at war with?

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      I dont know. you tell me. Outside of the thunderdome in the middle east. whens the last time there was a major conflict with dozens of nations and more than two major ideoligies at play.

      If you’re asking in good faith. World War II’s situation was largely unprecedented.
      Unlike WWI Where Imperial Russia and France were allied. Soviet Russia was not allied with France, Britain, or western Europe.

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        The point is that the US put aside ideological differences because the USSR was fighting against the Nazis, they were not “co-belligerents.”

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          for four years. a temporary matter. they went right back to being in a hostile competition for spheres of influence a few weeks or months after V-E day however.

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            Well, that’s twice as long as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact lasted before the Nazis and Communists went right back to killing each other, not just in a “hostile competition” but in a large scale, total war that left tens of millions of people dead.