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"Maybe I should have written my comment 34 in Latin or Ancient Greek" – it's a great idea. Go ahead. /// "It's evident, and I hope you understood this (I really do!), that the citation was referring to the fact that" look, the citation was referring to the fact that you said I was wrong (if that's not the case, you have some issues comprehending): "I'm weighing in to say my piece on the controversy between Nes and Max Cady"; "I'm for Max Cady and I try to explain why." I just tried to explain why Mussolini matters; regardless of what Max says, he does. /// "The citation was referring to the fact that American intentions, evidenced by repeated (relatively cautious) wartime behaviors, were aimed at safeguarding, within the limits of possibility, Italian territory; and on this point, the fascist regime counted for nothing." No one ever said anything about the Americans having interests in Italian territory; if it seemed otherwise to you, perhaps before you think about how to translate your posts, you might want to read those of others. By the way, I never said that fascism should have prevented this, especially since the Marshall Plan is from '47 and fascism had been dead for a while. /// "It is equally obvious that, reasoning solely with common sense (without invoking higher abilities), one cannot but be against the brutality of fascism, and so on. I took this for granted..." And who ever told you anything? /// "I don't understand why you insist on deviating the conclusions from those that are logical, having provided a precise picture of the situation." The conclusion is quite logical and immediate, look, almost pop; you could even make a spot: no war, no Marshall. /// "In my opinion, you had reached the point where it was enough to do the math." True, and in my house, 1+1 equals 2; I didn't actually get to 2+1, but to reach the elementary conclusion I've reached, it's enough to do 1+1. /// "For goodness' sake, you can very well disagree with me." I agree with everything you said. The Marshall Plan served Americans to have bases and whatnot in the middle of Europe to face the potential Soviet threat. No question about it. What I was arguing (and the extremely obvious insight of anyone) is that if Italy hadn't entered a war it couldn't handle, no one would have needed American aid. In fact, maybe we would have entered afterwards; perhaps on the obviously right side; maybe America would have come to help us after the war was over, but we wouldn't have needed all that money America gave us, and America wouldn't have had the opportunity to be compensated in that way. /// "You can't afford to make me out to be someone I'm not regarding the statement on Mussolini [...] - in the context of the reasoning I've laid out." No one wants to make you out to be anything. I'm just saying that Max's statement "Anyway, if you see a direct responsibility of Mussolini in the Marshall Plan, like in WWII, you're out of your mind..." is nonsense, monumental nonsense; you wouldn't even need to underline it, by the way... /// "Otherwise, I have to note a misconduct on your part, which I can't explain, or a temporary disruption of the synapse (it can happen, you know)." The only thing I can observe is that you've taken fakes for flasks, and big ones at that; you've written a totally useless 15-line comment trying to dismantle arguments I've never made and defending yourself from attacks I've never made... /// "Call me an idiot if that makes your life better, but a fascist, definitely not." Fascist? Idiot??? Sorry, why? At most, you just seem out of your mind... "PS: In case the link between the Marshall Plan and Benito isn't clear yet, I'll try to explain it again: Italy underwent the Marshall Plan (which may have had all the reasons in the world, but they have nothing to do with this discussion; I'm talking about a problem that's seven years older than the Marshall Plan) because it was crushed in 1943 by a war it could never have faced. This war was fo