If the modern us military went through a time machine and brought all of their modern technology but no nuclear weapons, how long would it take them to win World War 2?
It seems like one squadron of modern US fighter jets would take out the Luftwaffe in about an hour without taking any casualties.
If I were one of the time travelers the first thing I’d do is go to Auschwitz & kill the Nazis, then Treblinka & kill those Nazis, and then I’d tell my men “there are more camps like these but I don’t remember the names. One is ‘sobibore’ maybe? Not sure on spelling. Go find now“
Then I would jump in a helicopter and while being flown towards Berlin I would get on the phone with my drone commanders in Nevada and have them kill the entire leadership of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Then I’d get to Berlin and...see the sights! Hit up a club & do some ketamine!
The next day I’d wake up after some hot post-war ketamine haze orgy and it would be all groovy but then one of my sex partners would cough and I’d open the blinds and everyone in the city would be coughing and it would hit me: we accidentally brought back coronavirus! “Nooo!”
“It’s called coronavirus!”
“What’s that?”
“Covid-19”
“What is it?”
“Look, we’ve really reached the end of my knowledge here! But it’s bad! Like Spanish flu bad. Do you have the malaria drug? It might work.”
“In the future, there’s a treatment for malaria? Wow!”
“Fuck fuck fuck!!”
“How come you have designer club drugs and raves but you don’t have hydrocblahchekxihfbfm something or other??? Why am I the only time traveler who has knowledge about the future? Why didn’t the surgeon general come too?! This makes no sense!”
“Iche spreche kein Englisch”
“FUCK!”
“Why did no one tell me this was a one way time machine?!?!?”
“It’s not a one way time machine”
“Oh! Oh. Ok, let’s go home.”
And we’d step into the time machine and as we left the past all we’d hear is the sounds of people coughing from the virus we’d introduced by accident
And then I’d be sitting in a bar telling this story to some friends over drinks & I’d say “anyway, we delivered the bomb.” And they’d say...nothing. And I’d say “it’s a reference to the end of Quint’s speech in Jaws.“ And they’d say “what’s Jaws?” and I’d scream “Noooo!!”
The end
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