I was there for it with Iraq in the early 00s. The worst isn’t the ones who memory hole it but the ones who will wait until the narrative has definitely turned and there’s no risk of being on The Wrong Side
Then they’ll come out and assure you that they always thought that way, that they were always saying it was wrong to engage in the war and that peace was the way to go. They’ll try to gaslight everyone, themselves most of all
The Irving family is an incredibly rich family that essentially runs New Brunswick as a personal medieval fiefdom. Every gas station and most of the province is owned and operated by them
Coincidentally, there’s a mysterious degenerative brain disease found only in New Brunswick, but there’s been a distinct lack of funding for research into it. These two statements are unrelated
For shits and giggles I went to check out his successors as head of the Bundeswehr
It took until 1986 for them to get a leader that wasn’t a Nazi
Imagine if the rest of Europe was as revanchist about each other as Finland is to Russia
They fought one short border war in the lead up to WW2, but to hear the Finns talk about it they make it seem like Russia was personally massacring every single civilian they could for fun on their way to burn down Helsinki
Imagine if France still held out a deep mistrust and hatred of the Germans for two world wars, or the Belgians for the Franco-Flemish war. One war a century ago and Finland can’t get the fuck over it
running out of older Soviet era chassis
It struck me recently that what’s implied by the use of “Soviet era” and the reality are two different things
Like even though the USSR collapsed in 1991, I feel that the use of “Soviet era” always implies to people some out of date clunky 1960s tech, and fails to properly contextualize that basically everything the west has sent to Ukraine has also been “Soviet era”. The M1 Abrams, Leopard 1, the F-16, all of these are 1960s-1980s, they’re as old as the “Soviet era” stuff. Hell most countries haven’t adopted anything new since the early 2000s
It would be like calling US equipment “Gulf War era” or something, it’s fucking meaningless
Over/under on this being the US’ handiwork?
Simply... it's like Fidel Castro, over and over again," he said. "Constant attempts to sell you things: Selling you gold sneakers and a 100,000-dollar watch and, more recently, a Trump Bible,"
Castro, famous for [checks notes] trying to sell Cubans shoes?
but it’s actually BIZARRE that you wouldn’t just… Have her run AS president? Like jfc the opportunity is right there???
Liberals can only achieve climax through rigid adherence to the rules
Can you imagine how deflated they would feel if the first female president got in not by voting and campaigning but because an old fuck retired and she inherited the position?
IOF going to the Wimp Lo school of fighting
So is the actual Pentagon, next to a shopping mall called fucking Pentagon City
Heaven forbid someone likes sports and tries to stop gambling too considering every ad break during sports games is for a betting app
Hell I’ve seen them plastered over subways and other places, so even touching grass won’t help
Gambling delenda est
Finland “had a difficult choice” between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Finland " was forced " to choose the Nazis.
The Nazis were inspired to use the swastika as a symbol because a fascist Swedish count gave the Finns their first plane pre-painted with a swastika, and this Swede was family to Hermann Goering
As for the Finns, they enthusiastically used the swastika to represent their air force from 1918 to 2020
I’ve heard that about Mosins as well, with the sole proof being a single photo of an irregular holding a sniper Mosin, which is of course still a perfectly valid weapon to use even in 202x
I’ve also seen this claim made baselessly about T-34s, as if Russia somehow has any functional combat ready T-34s left since 1960
The Russians are simultaneously so incredibly adept at subtle manipulation and counterintelligence that they are a persistent threat to all elections worldwide
Yet so inept as to not hire a single English speaker and so use “Russian Soviet naming conventions” for their public secret project to overthrow an election
Possibly one of the most baffling takes I’ve ever seen, and incredibly contradictory. Give your head a shake
The Westoid brain cannot comprehend not having a designated enemy state
Obama “cozied up” to Putin and Xi while in office, because it’s called fucking geopolitics. Xi and Obama got along pretty swimmingly from my recollection. It’s almost like having trading partners and settling geopolitical beefs with negotiation is a fucking better idea
Remember, China Bad started only in about 2016. There was much more rapprochement between China and the West prior to that, why the fuck do you think we sent our manufacturing to them?
Western journalists don’t have object permanence
If a public figure doesn’t perpetually show their mug in public, they’ve been disappeared
I love seeing all these writers act as if the F16 is some new wunderwaffen that’s never before been seen by China or Russia, this ultra advanced bleeding edge fighter with the most sophisticated electronics when it’s probably the oldest and least capable US aircraft still in service now that the F15 is being phased out
They’re close to 50 years old, China and Russia are immensely aware of its capabilities, and they’re significantly less advanced than literally anything Ukraine had before in its airforce
The only reason NATO is giving Ukraine the F16 isn’t that it’s good, it’s that it’s such an outdated fighter that they can give so many of them away and not care if they’re lost, unlike the hundreds of advanced tanks and artillery pieces they’ve lost
I’ve seen multiple headlines, more than not, stating that Putin claims to support Harris. This man straight up said it but liberals believe that literally every breath he makes is a lie, so clearly this must be too, and it’s actually that he still supports Trump
Not going to happen unfortunately, libs are way too high on their slava ukraini to ever change
What’s gonna happen is they’ll watch the Republicans pivot, they’ll make memes about how Putin is so weak he couldn’t keep buying out the GOP, then grudgingly admit Trump did a good thing, just like they did when he ordered a massive missile strike on Syria