On this day in 1889

[Weltall]

Unfortunately many Americans get so boastful and smug about it that it annoys the hell out of everyone, Winning the war was a team effort after all.

As I said, Americans (at least, the generation who fought the war) had every right to be boastful. The rest of the world, upset by America's take on the war, always forgets that we were fighting two wars at once, and nobody was giving us any substantial help in the other one.

Even if America stayed out of Europe and Russia won anyway, the fact remains that the only variable for Europe would be which totalitarian hellhole would they be a part of for the next few centuries.

Finally, it was a team effort by the Europeans for starting all that remarkably stupid shit in the first place.