Lesser known wars and conflicts 2024/2025

Heikki · April 2, 2025, 5:29pm

Always fun time when countries with nukes exchange fire…

mindysan33 · April 2, 2025, 7:46pm

Purplecat · April 10, 2025, 11:36am

mindysan33 · April 14, 2025, 4:31pm

Heikki · April 15, 2025, 2:58pm

CongenitalOptimist · April 15, 2025, 5:46pm

Wow. More good reporting here: https://youtu.be/U5TDKknYYq8?si=IAvoMmazDuWazvH2

mindysan33 · April 18, 2025, 12:55am

mindysan33 · April 18, 2025, 12:59am

Thanks for posting that…

Also, how many different youtube shows does that guy host? I swear to god, he shows up everywhere…

CongenitalOptimist · April 18, 2025, 3:42am

Simon seems to be a professional YouTube presenter. Kind of a cool career I guess - I mean as long as you’re not reading lines for modern Nazis and whatnot.

IMDb has him doing 13 different channels.

I like his delivery.

mindysan33 · April 20, 2025, 2:30am

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mindysan33 · April 22, 2025, 1:31pm

CongenitalOptimist · April 22, 2025, 2:32pm

We don’t hear enough about Haiti. It’s pretty much a failed state run by gangs at this point.

Purplecat · April 22, 2025, 2:50pm

mindysan33 · April 22, 2025, 3:37pm

Haiti was failed, though, over and over again…first via the debt imposed by the French, then by over a century of US interventionism. Given that, it’s not a huge surprised that it’s reached this new low, especially after the earthquake. The western world owes Haiti for what they’ve done to the place.

nosaj · April 23, 2025, 1:33pm

In 2016, the “Revolutions” podcast did a great section on the Haitian Revolution, and capped it off with a segment on the history of Haiti from the revolution until then.

I found it very moving.

So today Haiti is … the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. … But they will never not be the country that was born from the only successful slave uprising in the history of the world. That they had been created from a group of men and women who would not be slaves any more; who beat back every major world power who tried to come in and tell them how it was going to be.

The history of Haiti is not pretty, and Haiti is not in great shape right now. But I’m proud to know them, proud to know their history. … I hope that from now on, whenever you hear news about Haiti, you feel a better connection to the country and understand them a little better. Because they deserve to be more to us than just “the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere”. They were once the Avengers of the New World.

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/2016/04/419-the-history-of-haiti.html

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mindysan33 · April 23, 2025, 1:59pm

Will have to check that out! thanks!

Purplecat · April 24, 2025, 1:39pm

Purplecat · April 24, 2025, 3:42pm

This has led to an escalating political situation over who is behind the attacks:

CongenitalOptimist · April 25, 2025, 12:58am

Yeah - the obvious problem here is both sides have nukes and several generations of disagreement