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  • “Blitzkrieg” is literally “lightning war”, and just refers to the style of offense the Germans used against other European countries in WWII, which was largely responsible for their early military success.

    Armies at that time relied on stationary positions and slow logistics, horse-drawn carriages for a large portion. The Germans just blitzed into France, through the Maginot line.

    Which makes me wonder whether the current idea of MAD holding off war isn’t as deluded as relying on the Maginot line. I sure hope it isn’t.

    Anyway this is more just fascism in general. A fast rise in authoritarianism. Not “war” in the classical sense, although it certainly is basically war.






  • "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying,"

    Now who here thinks this sentence sounds like law enforcement in action in real life and not an excerpt from a badly written gangbanger movie?

    The kid having leukemia makes this very much a cruel an unusual decision. Can’t say “punishment” since they’d argue it’s not a punishment, just bureaucracy. But them not being able to known where they’re gonna even have to go looking for healthcare is just horrific.




  • To disregard their existence is to pretend they don’t matter at all, which is incredibly naive.

    There’s no perfect compliance, no, but if they weren’t respected at all and had no effect, the situations would be different.

    For instance yeah, Russia has apparently brought out WWI style choking agents and used them. But there’s no widespread use at least, and no mustard gas. Which would be more effective for Russia to do. But they don’t, as they want to keep plausible deniability so that Europe doesn’t gain an actual reason to mount an offensive.

    So yeah, while you are right in that psychotic asshats don’t care about them, they are affected by them nonetheless.

    Basically ROE says that medics shouldn’t be shot, but my brother trained as a medic and one of the first things they’ve we’re unofficially taught was to hide their crosses on the battlefield, as Russians would literally aim at medics. (Finnish army.)