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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by dredmorbius on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:44AM (#21723479)
At best, that has held in limited places and times since WWII.

At worst, it was an affirmation repeated, as with most affirmations, in the hopes that the repetition would make it true, which it doesn't, and for the usual reason, that it generally wasn't.

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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by kortilla on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:16PM (#21723838)
So presumably you have evidence of most countries trading with each other while going to war with each other?
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Re:The Great Cannon has been deployed again by dredmorbius on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:46PM (#21728530)
The United States and Germany during WWII, as evidenced by Ford, General Motors, IBM, Coca-Cola, Kodak, Chase Bank, Random House, Associated Press, Dow Chemical, Brown Brothers Harriman, Woolworths, Alcoa, AT&T, and others.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers...

https://www.phactual.com/8-american-companies-that-worked-wi...

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-american-companies-that-aided...

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