Not sure this qualifies. Interesting, tho.
Putin is exactly that kind of crafty-but-stupid fascist cop spook.
American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops
The righteous indignation sort of falls apart when you learn that the US did exactly the same thing to Russian soldiers there when it was their war back in the '80s under Reagan.
This sort of “no harm, no foul” attitude towards the GRU is sort of the reason why I was slightly reluctant to post it here.
In an alternate universe:
The soviets just nuked Paris!
Well, you know, the Americans nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Fairs fair, in war. No harm no foul.
Why would they nuke white people? Oh wait, are there more Algerians there now?
So weird due to our universe’s history of France’s and Russia’s respective goverments relationships with one another, lol.
See! What soviet nefariousness is ultimately not forgivable?
Aside from all the … uh, deaths … it could derail peace tolks and prolong the war.
The TV historian and author told an online show hosted by the conservative commentator Darren Grimes that slavery was not genocide because of the survival of “so many damn blacks”.
There couldn’t have been a Holocaust, either, because…
What a piece of trash.
All these genocides (Armenia, Rwanda, Myanmar, the former Yugoslav Republic, Indigenous people in North America…) just didn’t happen. Clearly. I mean there are some people from the targeted groups around, right? Armenia still has a country. Can’t be real. (Yes, they are, and so is my sarcasm).
narrows eyes Sometimes I wish it really was possible to psychically slap a motherfucker.
This is illuminating! Thanks for post it. It undercuts the idea that Truman was the “heavy” here and puts the blame on FDR, for starting the project and planning on using the bomb. Plus, you can see the steady escalation under FDR, too, with the various bombings at the end of the European theater…
I do wonder about the reaction if the bomb had been dropped in Germany instead of Japan? I can’t imagine that Europeans (especially our allies) would have happy about us dropping a nuke in Central Europe?
Over at the other place, whenever this topic comes up, there are always people who are ready to defend the narrative that it was a “good” thing, despite the civilian deaths and that is had precious little to do with the Red Army on their way to Japan…
The Dresden firestorm bombing received quite a bit of reaction. So did the firebombing of Hamburg. The reactions even among the allies (including Churchill) were pretty negative.
In January 1946, Major Cortez F. Enloe, a surgeon in the USAAF who worked on the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS), said that the fire effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki “were not nearly as bad as the effects of the R.A.F. raids on Hamburg on July 27th 1943”. He estimated that more than 40,000 people died in Hamburg
… a state TV exit poll showed Mr Lukashenko winning 79.7% of the vote.
The opposition had said it expected the vote to be rigged. Protesters have already clashed with police.
After voting on Sunday, Mr Lukashenko said he did not see Ms Tikhanovskaya as a threat, and denied imposing repressive measures on the opposition.
“They are not worth enough to carry out any repression against them,” he said.
controversial new law? The vote was unanimous