Couple of episodes in and it’s really quite good.
But:
Stalin, what a horrible person.
Pacific testing, what a horrible event.
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Every day I wake up wanting to see that!
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LOL Decorative army
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So, has any other nation (friendly or foe) come out and denounced the Ukrainian incursion? Just North Korea? Ah who cares.
Is anyone surprised? Vlad’s got no friends.
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Potatoführer (Lukashenko) didn’t even bother. Lol.
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How’s it work now BD. Is it numbers still attacking Ukraine or numbers including the Kursk invasion?
Both?
You can’t go to war in footwear that hurts.
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get it done but without any additional resources whatsoever
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It’d be like EFC saying - win the flag by 2026 boys. No excuses.
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Did you not know either of those things before seeing that show???
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I assume its all fronts.
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I can empathise with those thoughts.
For 20 years, we have been supporting a “bit of a decorative football team”.
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As ineffectual as Peter Jackson declaring that yet another pissweak Essendon game was “unacceptable”. [Of course he did not have a Time Machine/reality switch device, so had to accept it was true]
I did … yes.
Stalin was an utter monster. A cruel totalitarian pig to put it bluntly. And the testing, those SALT and SALT II treaties were all a daily subject, even at my age they being regular newspaper front pager topics.
The later Putin episodes are sobering if we didn’t already conclude. Another corrupt monster but always hiding in plain sight. No wonder Ukraine were so fearful and never ever trusted him. The EU and the west were so naive. He just has to be stopped and deposed.
This Ukraine war simply must be won is my takeaway, if ever I needed reminding.
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I knew that the Russian population had a LOT of deaths, but I thought it was mostly due to famine.
And knew about the bomb tests in the pacific. But when they showed the sheer size of the Explosion for the ‘Mike’ test it was pretty insane.
What I was intrigued by, maybe some older folk could elaborate. The whole fixation and fanaticism against communism (internment, building bomb shelters etc). Has there been anything else since than that the response was similar in magnitude? I was thinking response to AIDS, maybe. But maybe not as all encompassing as COVID response.
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Communism was a bogeyman created by the US that always needs to invoke some villain. (More on the later).
Of course, Menzies and successive Libs here went along with that because it was a convenient stick to beat Labor and workers with.
Anything similar in magnitude? COVID was more widespread (though conservatives in US derided it) but thanks to science not as long lasting. Same with AIDS
But Communism is STILL an epithet thrown around by US right wingers. So it has past into folklore as the existential bogeyman for Americans. For example that is what Trump calls Harris or other centre-right Dems and is obviously and clearly untrue.
Back to the need to invoke a villain. This is easily documented in Hollywood movies and TV shows. Throughout the Cold War it was always the Russkies who were the evil adversaries. But wait, what happened when the Berlin Wall came down and we had Glasnost? Following the blueprint laid down in 1984 they seamlessly moved to other nationalities who were not politically au fait. So for a time, it was South Africans. Mandela gets in. Oops, who next? Problems in Balkans, so then we have Serb super villains. Of course after “9/11” it has been Muslims that have been prominent.
It boils down to conservatives only have two buttons to press: greed and fear. They bribe (“we will cut your taxes”) and they try to incite fear: in addition to the above, they beat drums like “immigrants will take your jobs”/“the other party will raise your taxes/increase cost of living” etc etc. And that “fear factor” is constantly fanned by the media, subtly as described above, but overtly by the likes of Murdoch and the other right wing media over the last 70+ years.
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