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23. While we certainly didn't do the rape thing anywhere near the scale of Russia

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 10:30 AM

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We did our fair share of plundering. Stories have popped up here and there of GIs taking gold, jewels and other valuables they stumbled across. More than one packed up a car clandestinely and shipped it home after the war. Knew a friend of a friend of my family who stumbled across an "abandoned" Mercedes 540k in the garage of a bombed out house. He packed in grease, oilcloth and a plywood box, stashed in under rubble, went home and was discharged, came back to Germany as a civilian a year and a half later, dug it up and shipped it home. Got to see it once, beautiful car.

It's war, these things happen more than you think, people just don't talk much about them afterwards.

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Tucker Carlson: "Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday OP

Well Hogshit said there are no rules of engagement fujiyamasan Yesterday #1

Hard to believe there are Americans that talk like that Walleye Yesterday #2

It's becoming less hard to believe every day. LoisB 19 hrs ago #31

To the victor, go the spoils UpInArms Yesterday #3

That's it... they think of war as a video game viva la Yesterday #4

That was the history of war long before video games EdmondDantes_ 22 hrs ago #11

True UpInArms 22 hrs ago #12

For starters . . . . . no_hypocrisy Yesterday #5

There was someone on DU recently saying that the victors never face war crimes, so "all good" maxrandb Yesterday #6

WTF? 2naSalit 22 hrs ago #7

When dealing with a bag of rancid excrement... GiqueCee 22 hrs ago #8

I like that imagery MorbidButterflyTat 19 hrs ago #35

How is that a 'truly unhinged' prediction ? vanessa_ca 22 hrs ago #9

Because our American troops don't win and start raping Melon 22 hrs ago #10

Mahmudiyah rape and killings CatWoman 22 hrs ago #13

While Of Course Reprehensible, Five Soldiers Is A Pretty Small Sample. ColoringFool 21 hrs ago #17

Look up US military civilian rape in Korea and Vietnam, just for starters. niyad 18 hrs ago #39

Bullshit. It's a problem even during peacetime vanessa_ca 22 hrs ago #15

Not What He Was Referencing, Though. ColoringFool 21 hrs ago #18

But it is what I referenced in the post he replied to vanessa_ca 21 hrs ago #19

That's not systematic rape.... Melon 21 hrs ago #21

Look up US military civilian rape in Korea and Vietnam, for starters. niyad 18 hrs ago #40

Because He Is Implying That Our WW2 Troops Raped And.... ColoringFool 22 hrs ago #16

Oh they actually did. WhiskeyGrinder 21 hrs ago #22

While we certainly didn't do the rape thing anywhere near the scale of Russia indusurb 21 hrs ago #23

Is Tucker in the files by chance? durablend 22 hrs ago #14

This message was self-deleted by its author Renew Deal 21 hrs ago #20

and they wonder why we women want the equal rights amendment ratified, when men resort to such thoughts lindysalsagal 20 hrs ago #24

Rec'd, but just a note that Tucker had warned against starting this war and was warning about "unconditional surrender" vanessa_ca 20 hrs ago #27

Oh context?!! Now there is a novel thought... AloeVera 20 hrs ago #30

Exactly. It was a warning. vanessa_ca 19 hrs ago #36

And Tucker will be around PlanetBev 20 hrs ago #25

Even as a woman? ...Can I slap his God-Damn face 16 times via telephone? chouchou 20 hrs ago #26

Why? He was warning against that happening if Trump pursued an "unconditional surrender" vanessa_ca 20 hrs ago #28

I understand. (Woke up late) I'll still slap his face, just for fun. chouchou 19 hrs ago #32

Haha, if only we could do it together at the same time. vanessa_ca 19 hrs ago #34

"Your" wife, "your" daughter leftstreet 20 hrs ago #29

Must be one of Tucker's main fantasies CanonRay 19 hrs ago #33

Tucker always with the testicles Kid Berwyn 19 hrs ago #37

OMG MorbidButterflyTat 19 hrs ago #38

Rape is, and always has been, one of the weapons of war, however niyad 18 hrs ago #41

Living in a nation long overdue for a public conversation contrasting "historically normal" with "socially desirable" 0rganism 17 hrs ago #42