Z the IVth posted:

I'm surprised Malaysia of all places would throw in so strongly with China though given the fairly deep Chinese/Malay racial divide.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1774951871406277062?t=GNeZtNEOvF48EbwckunyIA&s=19

The US will lose WW3

rudecyrus posted:

why is vietnam pro-us

quote:

Respondents came from 5 affiliation categories: (a)
academia, think-tankers or researchers; (b) private
sector representatives; (c) civil society, NGO or media
representatives; (d) government officials; and (e)
regional or international organisations personnel.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

the historiographic process lost itself over on nationalism and they got high on their own supply over the years, leading to attribute those victories as consequence of national character.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

my impression is that it was because of Clausewitz - a German - that war started to be considered in relation to political economy, which did made Prussia play ball differently and win the relevant wars, but the historiographic process lost itself over on nationalism and they got high on their own supply over the years, leading to attribute those victories as consequence of national character.

IIRC, Phillip Sheridan went as an observer to Europe during the Franco-Prussian war and was not impressed in terms of military innovation or skill, but credited the victory to the Prussian ability on logistics, mobilization and general discipline, which were much better than the French, whom were very attached to the principles of élan and national character and Napoleon etc etc etc.

Maybe it is something of the German soldiers training the American independence forces making into a cultural memory, an attachment of heroic construction (since the rebellion is the legendary birth of the country its soldiers must be legendary too, the greatest to be). German drill sergeants trained them, the USA is the greatest country ever, so German military must be great otherwise...

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/SteakFrankhouse/status/1775231829793976621?t=nqXhr1BdKRoMweb_1wFnVg&s=19

Ignore_Me posted:

He clearly failed it intentionally a la Ted Nugent pants making GBS threads style. Rittenhouse is a dumb choad but he can speak (mostly) in complete sentences, which would already put him in the top third of people taking the ASVAB. So the more accurate takeaway is that he’s a pussy, but not necessarily a learning disabled one

500excf type r posted:

What lol do you think Kyle Rittenhouse intentionally failed a test that had no strings attached because he's actually a very smart boy?

Ignore_Me posted:

no I think some people are pressured by their parents to enlist or are doing so out of some form of punishment or other, and they don’t otherwise actually want to enlist of their own volition so they sabotage a test that is incredibly easy to sabotage

wild take I know

e: or in a lot of cases, it’s people who want to be able to say “I wanted to sign up to kill because I’m a tough guy, but the guvment wouldn’t let me”

500excf type r posted:

What lol do you think Kyle Rittenhouse intentionally failed a test that had no strings attached because he's actually a very smart boy?

Jon Pod Van Damm posted:

you don't have to be smart to be a coward

Danann posted:

It's barely a few pages in, but given the full press court in recent years to declare Vietnam is actually longing for burger-senpai, this is probably where the fuckery is coming from if outright lying is assumed to be a bridge too far.

KomradeX posted:

Lol seeing those Vietnam numbers made me think they must have just done liberals. Though lol at the Philippines craving the US Boot

Ignore_Me posted:

no I think some people are pressured by their parents to enlist or are doing so out of some form of punishment or other, and they don’t otherwise actually want to enlist of their own volition so they sabotage a test that is incredibly easy to sabotage

wild take I know

The Oldest Man posted:

i think you could define both the mid/late ww2-era soviet and US ways of war as, basically, the ends (winning) justifies the means (deep battle, industrial warfare, Bombercrimes, etc.) The aesthetics of the way of war are perhaps not irrelevant insofar as they are needed to give individual people in the military and society something to attach to, but they're ultimately in the back seat compared to the necessities of showing up with more poo poo and crushing the enemy with the weight of men, material, and firepower. The Soviet artillery operations tables are kind of the apex of this sort of thinking: we will win not through elan, not through derring-do or national superiority, but because we have calculated in advance the number of shells that the factory must supply in order to kill everything in the map grid through which we must advance to take our next objective, the factory has produced the necessary shells, and we will now proceed to do the needful with them. There's no mythos to it at all.

The german way of war (and, frankly, a lot of continental european ways of war predating that by years and even centuries) was based on a belief in aesthetic superiority equating with military superiority, which ultimately was couched in the ideology of national and racial superiority. It looks good, it glorifies Us and Our poo poo, therefore it is good and will win. Winning strategy/tactics/weapons and aesthetic superiority aren't just linked together in this view, they're synonymous. The production of material and the adoption of mechanized tactics are done as a glorification of the aesthetic. Thus, bespoke handcrafted tanks topped by Aryan supermen charging through the ranks of the inferior enemy (glorifying) followed by infantry divisions whose prime motive vehicle is a horse (trucks aren't glorifying). The mythos isn't about winning, the mythos is winning. If the aesthetic cannot prevail, it must be because it was betrayed or undermined somehow - it cannot fail on its own merits since it embodies victory under this way of war and the two concepts (victory and aesthetic superiority) can't be disentangled.

The former way of thinking certainly has its gremlins (like wildly overoptimistic assessments of strategic bombing accuracy), but the latter is a house made out of gremlins entirely. You can see which of those ways of war was adopted by the US and NATO post-war and the ultimate results of that.

e: actually if i was going to summarize the current US way of war, its a cargo cult worshipping the old materialist US way of war as a religious aesthetic without understanding how or why it worked

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1775315091753468025

swamp maoists got lost and became mountain maoists

Morbus posted:

It is not credible for someone to fail the ASVAB unless they are profoundly stupid, or have some kind of serious mental disability. If any halfway normal person scores "far below" the minimum eligibility requirement, it was almost certainly intentional

FirstnameLastname posted:

missed opportunity for WESTERN UNION imo

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1775315091753468025

swamp maoists got lost and became mountain maoists

zetamind2000 posted:

does palestine count as one country or two

euphronius posted:

maybe Laos also since we owe them

KomradeX posted:

Cuba, The People's Republic of China

Trabisnikof posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOWRembdPS8

Animal-Mother posted:

quote:

Rittenhouse started taking online classes at Arizona State University as a non-degree seeking student
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To be admitted to ASU as a nondegree student, you must either be a high school graduate or currently enrolled in high school. 

If you're currently enrolled in high school or under the age of 18, you may be admitted as a nondegree student by submitting an official high school transcript and a letter of approval from a high school counselor or principal. You must have a 3.00 cumulative GPA in Arizona Board of Regents competency courses to be considered for admission.

crepeface posted:

huh, the narrator says the factory produces 1000 a day. wonder if that's meant to be a single factory or all of China's factories combined. I would imagine it's the latter.

Weka posted:

Here's the tomahawk factory for comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzXW2GZh4qs



Hard to say but it's a big factory

Danann posted:

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1775315091753468025

swamp maoists got lost and became mountain maoists

Cerebral Bore posted:

im more interested in what caused texas and california to team up

Cerebral Bore posted:

im more interested in what caused texas and california to team up