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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

Autocracy always trends towards incompetence

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

can't wait to watch them spend 10x more time talking about college students than the president of the united states

dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

Signing the M-R pact is bad enough. Signing the M-R pact and then STAYING FAITHFUL TO IT FOR TWO YEARS is incomprehensible.

dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

11 months went by between the signing of the M-R pact and the fall of France. Poland was held by a token German force. Stalin could have gone in anytime.

Instead he chose to keep sending Hitler oil while he stole land from his neighbors.

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

If you're going to call me a Nazi sympathizer you should say it to my fucking face

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

How the fuck are you arguing that the USSR wouldn't have had allies to fight Hitler IN NINETEEN THIRTY NINE

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

You should consider reading American Prometheus or uh watching the movie if you think he was apolitical.

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

I think the idea is you send in the airborne mechanized force *after* getting rid of the ADA

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

Never mind the fact that's actually not at all why the US lost those wars AND the "spiritually superior" thesis was already decisively debunked in the Pacific War.

Hegseth has basically the exact same military philosophy as the IJA did. Guess what- in modern warfare it doesn't work!

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 8d

I think the rahhh warfighter stuff is a retroactive attempt to emulate why dumb guys think that the Taliban and NVA won, ie the myth of the Taliban and Viet Cong soldier as being psychologically/spiritually superior

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 9d

only makes sense in a world where the government is deeply or universally unpopular

dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 10d

tanner scott taking Ws away from Yamamoto like his name is Chuichi Nagumo

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 11d

a battle to the death between neo-nazi used car salesmen and corporate tax attorneys who read books about malcolm x

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 12d

seems much more straightforward to say that Elon Musk is a white supremacist conspiring against democracy for white supremacist reasons than whatever this is

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

I think you can argue this was French doctrine in the Napoleonic period too tbh

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

I don't remember if the movie says this explicitly but the book (American Prometheus) makes it very clear that Oppenheimer left CPUSA because of the M-R Pact.

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

The large, militant prewar French left arguably never recovered from the Pact either

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

It's the reason Oppenheimer stopped being a communist!

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

That's the real irony of this line of argument from tankies, it ends up indirectly valorizing Winston Churchill (who they very reasonably hate!)

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

I just read Glantz's book on the Red Army in WW2 and fwiw he argues that the current body of documents doesn't really support the theory that Stalin had a breakdown.

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

Curious that tankies are so obsessed with history and yet have such a poor understanding of the basic facts of what actually took place

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

The invasion of the USS would not have been possible without the capitulation of France taking the French Army out of the field

which Hitler was only able to do because the Soviet Union supplied Germany with 2m barrels of oil in 1939 and 1940 and allowed him to garrison Poland with 6 divisions

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

I think that's sliding towards gold right now

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

I hate him way more than Trump.

Trump is so psychologically broken and mentally compromised that I think he genuinely doesn't understand that he could or should act differently.

Vance absolutely knows what he's doing is wrong. He called Trump Hitler like 4 years ago!

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dick cheney is brat @captainahab.bsky.social · 17d

Not even the most evil Anglophone country

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