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On Warrior Ethos (thelemmy.club)
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Tumblr user tsarina-anadyomene: it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there Tumblr user gsot: [Screenshot of Bluesky user Ruth Baader-Meinhoff @sm-6.bluesky.social: the lesson of WWII is that aesthetic warrior cult societies get their shit rocked by school teachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else] Tumblr user drmajalis: [Screenshot of Bluesky user William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social: one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic and logistical endeavour" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"]
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

And the soviets, they did this all on their own? With their own local built equipment, arms and ammunition? All of their own intelligence? Very impressive if true.

Far less impressive if not.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Mostly, yes, the West was only busy trying to steal German oil colonies in Africa instead of actually fighting the Nazis.

    Not to liberate the people of course but to colonize the land themselves and steal the oil for themselves.

    America only swooped in after the Nazis had already been defeated at Stalingrad, and the Soviets were at the point of taking over all of Europe.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    And, let me guess, after that, the trees in Moscow grew rubles and Stalin himself sculpted the sun?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    After that NATO integrated many top Nazi leaders directly into leadership roles and put a Nazi official at the top of NATO not long after WW2 was over.

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