Which certainly persists to this day. People saying that the USA is "only 250 years old" while ignoring all of the First Nations/ indigenous peoples. It even ignores all of the European peoples that were there before the it was called USA.
I don't seem to encounter this with Canada very often which is interesting. And if we are going off of dates the current nation/ government is created why don't people say "oh well Germany is a young nation, they don't understand history"?
Good point about Desert Storm. Because North America has been so insulated from war/ major conflicts we have grown to be more tolerable of waging it. Every 20ish years we have to be reminded that it is something to be avoided.
Also, I hadn't even thought about how much medicine had changed and that allowed more people to survive but with injuries.
Another thing to point out is that Canada and the USA have only seen imperialist/ asymmetric warfare in my lifetime and this colors how we view the seriousness of it. How many d-bag Seals have podcasts or books glorifying themselves and how their rugged manliness got them through war? In reality they just had better equipment, logistics, and training on their side. But again it feeds into the propaganda machine pushing these societies to go to war.
This is exactly why WWI is so interesting to me. All over the world (mostly Europe) we had these notions about honor and glory in war. Then after a bunch of people got fed to machine gun fire the collective consciousness of humanity shifts. Obviously there were folks ahead of the curve and already knew this.
But in general for western civilization WWI is the inflection point.
This is not a new menace, nor is it just Western countries who are dealing with it.
Mercenaries have been around forever and everyone is using them. I would say that the entire continent of Africa has been menaced far more than 'Western' countries.
England has also been having issues with measles.
Then I expect UM to be all aboard for Satan
I'm torn between not wanting to make political violence normal and wanting these terrible people to destroy themselves with in fighting.
Because fascism
Does it have a squeeker inside that sounds like a train horn? Asking for a friend...
Or, hear me out, spend the money to make your country less shit.
Which certainly persists to this day. People saying that the USA is "only 250 years old" while ignoring all of the First Nations/ indigenous peoples. It even ignores all of the European peoples that were there before the it was called USA.
I don't seem to encounter this with Canada very often which is interesting. And if we are going off of dates the current nation/ government is created why don't people say "oh well Germany is a young nation, they don't understand history"?
Good point about Desert Storm. Because North America has been so insulated from war/ major conflicts we have grown to be more tolerable of waging it. Every 20ish years we have to be reminded that it is something to be avoided.
Also, I hadn't even thought about how much medicine had changed and that allowed more people to survive but with injuries.
Another thing to point out is that Canada and the USA have only seen imperialist/ asymmetric warfare in my lifetime and this colors how we view the seriousness of it. How many d-bag Seals have podcasts or books glorifying themselves and how their rugged manliness got them through war? In reality they just had better equipment, logistics, and training on their side. But again it feeds into the propaganda machine pushing these societies to go to war.
This is exactly why WWI is so interesting to me. All over the world (mostly Europe) we had these notions about honor and glory in war. Then after a bunch of people got fed to machine gun fire the collective consciousness of humanity shifts. Obviously there were folks ahead of the curve and already knew this.
But in general for western civilization WWI is the inflection point.
We have truly become the society of the spectacle.
If we are doing that whole party, let's throw the dems in too.
It isn't hard for them to understand, but they are pushing the narrative that it is.
Where do you live? I want to take your home.
I will claim (incorrectly) that it is mine historically, but idiots on the internet will simp for me.
I am against 'The West' so everything I do is justifiable or the reporting on it is propaganda or you just don't understand as a brainwashed westoid.
DM me the address and I will come take your home from you. Any resistance is just you drawing it out and making the situation worse.
Really weird to bring up on an article that has nothing to do with Biden.
This is not a new menace, nor is it just Western countries who are dealing with it.
Mercenaries have been around forever and everyone is using them. I would say that the entire continent of Africa has been menaced far more than 'Western' countries.
Just awful. I hope they can continue the push towards green energy sources and not have more of these incidents.
Yeah, this is even better.
But do I tag this user as "troll" or "misogynist"?
I'm happy to see Drag is still around. I feel like I haven't seen Drag since switching to quokk.au.
I'm pretty sure they were happy with it until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Then they joined the war and had to declare war on Germany as well.
The Soviets had just started the counter offensive in December.