Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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A Nuremburg noose would be best, honestly, as long as we’re having fantasies.
10·5か月前NARP wins on the strength of the name alone. That’s a winner’s name
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WEAK. HOW WILL YOU SURVIVE THE UN’S GAUNTLET
I’m generally happy to explain if anyone doesn’t recognize anything, but it often fails to occur to me that flags are unclear, despite so many of them just being palette swaps of each other. XD
“Wow, that was really successful! Time to never do anything like it again.” - Most Cold War-era states
Fuck, we could do so fucking much with a little investment, and instead we piss it all away on nonsense.
Explanation: Depicted are two books from German veterans of the First World War - All Quiet On The Western Front, from Erich Maria Remarque, a military engineer; and Storm of Steel, from Ernst Junger, a stormtrooper (assault troop).
Unironically, both are fascinating reads - All Quiet On The Western Front is a fiction novel, while Storm of Steel is a memoir. All Quiet On The Western Front was the voice of an entire generation, the ‘lost generation’ of the 1920s, who experienced the horrors of war and could hardly think of a way to exist after having suffered through them. It’s moving and heartbreaking, a story of ordinary boys thrust into a senseless war and ruined by it even as they successfully cling to their humanity; a classic of human emotion and a must-read for every literate person. Most striking to me is a scene about the difficulty of reconnecting with the people you knew in civilian life.
Ernst Junger was a… bizarre character. Yet his experiences related in Storm Of Steel resonated with many. To him, war was senseless, violent, and murdered the best of a generation - but also, in that chaos, he found purpose - ‘an incomparable schooling for the human heart’ he called it, if memory serves. He does not gloss over the terror and arbitrariness of the war - his descriptions of advancing under artillery and machine-gun fire are haunting, and the man was wounded multiple times during the war. Yet to his mind, war was a crucible which improved the men who survived. It would not be incorrect to see in this echoes of the postwar fascism and proto-fascism (you see a similar thinking in Futurism and Italian fascists who served in the Arditi - the WW1 Italian assault troops), though Junger himself, interestingly enough, was an anti-Nazi - on account of seeing Jewish soldiers as his brothers-in-arms. He is, however, a fantastic writer and shows a reaction to war that is often treated only in passing - that of men who genuinely grow fond of its horrors, yet are not sociopaths, but simply immensely damaged men.
All Quiet is the must read, but Storm of Steel is also very good.
They were all part of the Western bloc during the Cold War. Honestly, France would be the most questionable of the supporters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_von_Rosen
Von Rosen’s involvement in Africa did not end with the Congo Crisis. He gained international fame seven years later when he flew relief missions for aid organisations into war-torn Biafra, a breakaway republic of Nigeria.[4] These flights included flying a DC-7 from São Tomé to Uli at only a little above sea level in August 1968.[6]
Disgusted at the suffering the Nigerian government inflicted on the Biafrans and the continuous harassment of international relief flights by the Nigerian Air Force, he hatched a plan in collaboration with the French secret service to strike back at Nigerian air power. He imported five small civilian single engine MFI-9 planes produced by Malmö Flygindustri, at that time owned by SAAB, which he knew could also be used for a ground attack role in warfare. He had the planes painted in camouflage colours and fitted with license manufactured 68 mm SNEB type rockets, and proceeded with a crew of two Swedes and two Biafrans to form a squadron called ‘Biafra Babies’ to strike the air fields from which the federal Nigerian Air Force launched their attacks against the civilian population in Biafra. On 22 May 1969, and over the next few days, von Rosen and his five aircraft launched attacks against Nigerian air fields at Port Harcourt, Enugu, Benin and other small airports. The Nigerians were taken by surprise and a number of expensive jets, including a few MiG-17 fighters and three out of Nigeria’s six Ilyushin Il-28 bombers, were destroyed on the ground.[7] The Igbo intellectual Fola Oyewole who fought for Biafra recalled of all the Westerners who served with the Biafrans that Rosen was the most idealistic and the one who cared about the Igbos as a people the most.[8]
Japan was in the Western bloc during the Cold War.
In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup d’etat in Iran that ousted a democratically elected premier and restored a religious extremist dictator shah to power.
Correct (or partly correct - the Shah was secular) but has little to do with Israel, and nothing to do with Arabs?
Meanwhile, the Zionist movement has been supported by western countries since its founding.
Only in the broadest sense? Israel’s foundation was only enabled by Soviet military aid at a time when Western countries were largely unwilling to assist; the US intervened in support of Egypt against Israel in the 1950s, and US military aid didn’t become a major factor in Israel until the 1970s.
In addition to US and European countries, the Saudi royal family and OPEC countries have been doing all sorts of fuckery, with the support of western countries and especially western oil companies.
… that was also not until the 1970s.
This is more complicated than “Isreal strong” and “Arab bad.”
It’s less “Israel strong” and more “Dictatorships hollow out institutions, including vital institutions like the military”, like I explicitly said.
Israel’s access to US military equipment was pretty limited until the 1970s.
An anti-Zionist online acquaintance of mine once groused that “Arab armies couldn’t drive an AAV into the sea”
There’s probably something there about authoritarian regimes hollowing out institutions that could be seriously applied, but I found the comparison so striking and viscerally hilarious that I repeat it at every opportunity.
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The Nazis were way behind on that front.
Explanation: In Ukraine in the aftermath of the October Revolution, much of Ukraine was controlled by anarchists, largely following Nestor Makhno. At a significant material disadvantage in comparison to the Red (Bolshevik) and White (Tsarist) Armies, the Black (Anarchist) Army made widespread use of improvised mobile machine-gun platforms called tachankas… which were horse or mule-drawn carts with a machinegun tossed on the back, lmao. With these, they managed to repel Tsarist forces, despite extremely limited support from the Red Army.
If it works, it works!
Implying it’s not already fascist?