"Please stop Emu-War-posting, there's more to Australian history than one minor incident of failed wildlife control just because it has the name 'war' so it's funny to suggest that Australia 'lost' it against emus."
Australia has a rich history. Like that time when they built very long rabbit fences.
It was all in vain. Perth ended up succumbing to the rabbit invasion
"Meredith's official report noted that his men had suffered no casualties, except for their dignity." 💀
Sounds like a sore loser to me.
I know, right? Australian revisionism is getting out of control, attempting to suppress historical accounts of their crushing defeat, smh
You might also enjoy the potato beetle's involvement in the Cold War.
It was also a propaganda operation that alleged it was introduced into East Germany, the People's Republic of Poland and Communist Czechoslovakia by the United States as a form of entomological warfare. Communist propaganda of the time claimed that the insect was being dropped from parachutes and balloons, with the intent of immiserating the populations of these countries, causing famines, and facilitating an economic crisis.[1]
Honestly, the Cold War is wild enough that I could actually 100% believe that if there is ever the slightest hint of declassified document that suggests it, lmao.
Oh, I would totally believe it too.
Tangent: this has to be the showstopper among showstoppers for 99.9% of "faked Moon landing" conspiracies. The rivalry between the US and USSR surely wasn't the most bitter in history, but it had to – by sheer scope and depth – be the most underhanded and paranoid one. It's why it takes a debilitating ignorance of 20th century geopolitics to believe a faked Moon landing was possible: the US would've been skewered by the USSR with a mountain of receipts. This wasn't just a boast for the US; it was seen as a major counterblow to the USSR's record of spacefaring firsts.
Nothing short of direct observation could've bridged the ocean of distrust, and the USSR – with a world-class space program – clearly had that using radio signals; there was no way to trick them. Even if the US could somehow bribe the USSR through some impossibly gargantuan backdoor deal, it would've meant jack shit, because every other country with a developed space program would've done the same thing. About the only 0.1% of conspiracies that aren't shattered by a bare minimum understanding of the Cold War would have to be psychotic, unfalsifiable nonsense by people too detached from reality to be reasoned with, like the Cold War secretly being puppeteered by aliens or something.
And don't mention the cane toad invasion
This is fun. I don't have many memories of my grandma's house, but I do remember helping get those beetles off the plants. It was fun!
See that was the problem. The reason that machine guns reaped such a grisly harvest in WW1 was because people ran towards them.
Emus weren't that stupid.
Emus confirmed the evolutionarily superior species!?
Captain, the Emus are just running in random directions
If I don't know where I'm going to run, you don't know where you need to shoot
We gotta genetically engineer emus to eat cane toads. There’s no other solution.
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