"CONSCIOUSNESS IS AN EMERGENT PROPERTY OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD (?) WITHIN US!"
People need to be reminded of stuff every now and then!
I'm writing this because things seem to be getting out of hand on the International scene lately and before things get worse... maybe we should have another look at what fighting a war looks like!!!!!!)
The old adage says: “History is written by the victors!”
I would like to add my own saying and it goes like this: The winners always downplay their own sins by a factor of up to ten.. and exaggerate the loser's sins by up to a factor of ten.
One of the misconceptions of WW11 is the death toll of Dresden by Allied bombers and the death toll of Hiroshima by the A-bomb!
First Dresden: It was a culture and art city of 750,000 people with little military value, and there was another approx. 500,000 refugees fleeing the advancing Russian army.
This gave it a population of between one million to 1 1/2 million women, children and old men. (Since the young men were off fighting the war!)
Twelve weeks before the end of the war the Allies fire-bombed the entire city and burned it to the ground as this picture shows:
(Taken from the top of city hall)
Now, although original estimates put the death toll at half a million people.. the allies claimed it was closer to 35,000 and just in the past few years lowered it further to 25,000.
Now Hiroshima:
It was a city of up to half a million and Allied estimates of casualties were a little more accurate since they claimed about 100,000 deaths but you have to remember that after the bomb only concrete buildings remained standing since all the houses we made of flimsy wood and practically the whole city burned to the ground.
To the victor goes the spoils!
There is only one foolproof method to stop any war, but I warn you, many will not like this answer.
In 1916, in the midst of World War I, an amendment was proposed to be added to the United States Constitution in which any possible act of war would have to be submitted to a national referendum.
Where is the repellent element for any future war? Well, in the same proposal, it was written that whoever voted yes to the war would have to participate in military service in the US Army too!
(The proposal was rejected for obvious reasons!)
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A Russian wife turned to her husband and asked, "What's this special military operation our glorious leader keeps talking about?" Her husband replied, "It's a war to stop America and NATO." "Oh, right,” she says. “How's it going?"
“Well,” he replied, “so far we have lost over 20 generals, 100,000 troops killed, countless injured, 3000 tanks, 300 aircraft, hundreds of helicopters, countless armoured vehicles, artillery and trucks, our flagship along with other naval ships, our army is being defeated in most areas and we have had to resort to conscripting 500,000 Russians including murders and rapists to replace our losses”.
“Wow,” replied the wife, “what about America and NATO”?
“They haven’t turned up yet”
This is Chechnya.
In 1999, the Russians erased the capital Grozny. But three years before that, Russia signed a peace treaty with the Chechens. They already lost the war and needed a break. Only to come back and kill up to 300,000 Chechens, 25% of the entire small but proud nation that simply wanted freedom.
This is how peace talks with Moscow always end.
Psssst! Wanna know why Russia is losing the war they started against Ukraine!
Nearly five months into its senseless war against Ukraine, Russia has concocted a wild new explanation for why the Kremlin’s plans for a quick takeover fell apart so spectacularly—because Ukrainian troops were turned into superhuman killing machines during “secret experiments” in American-run biolabs, of course.
Never mind the myriad reports of Russian troops refusing to fight by the thousands, sabotaging their own shoddy equipment and even deliberately wounding themselves to abandon the war, Russian lawmakers claim the real setback for Moscow was “drugged up” Ukrainian soldiers.
That claim was made Monday by two Russian lawmakers heading up a commission to investigate “biolaboratories” in Ukraine, Kommersant reported.
Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, and Irina Yarovaya, deputy chair of the State Duma, touted what they described as bombshell findings from the “investigation.”
Testing of Ukrainian POWs’ blood, they claimed, uncovered “a range of diseases” that suggest they were secretly experimented on “for military purposes.”
“And we see: the cruelty and barbarity with which the military personnel of Ukraine behave, the crimes that they commit against the civilian population, those monstrous crimes that they commit against prisoners of war, confirm that this system for the control and creation of a cruel murder machine was implemented under the management of the United States,” Yarovaya was quoted telling reporters.
This story was told to me by my mother many years after my father had died and it helped me to understand what sort of a man he was.
During WW11 my father was in the Wehrmacht (German Army) and one day the hill he was on was being assaulted by some American troops. The commanding officer ordered his troops to shoot the Americans as they came up the hill but my dad figured this was no more than outright murder so he refused. (He was a telegraph operator and only carried a sidearm... plus he had never shot anyone in his life.)
Dad could have been shot on the spot for this but instead, his commander decided to send him on a suicide mission the next day and let that take care of the problem.
After he was out of sight of his unit he started hiding behind every tree and in every ditch until he made his was to the edge of one of the enemy units which happened to be a Canadian company.
He immediately surrendered!
After a year in a POW camp, dad spent the rest of the war as a driver and translator for one of the officers and when the war was over he immediately applied to emigrate to North America since Germany was in ruins.
The waiting list for the States was too long so he put down our name for Canada and then got us on one of the first immigrant ships coming over here.
On a side note: He originally wanted to go to the States because he had an uncle in Iowa, but since we went to Canada that was no longer possible.
All in all, it's a good thing we did go to Canada because if we had ended up being American, I would have been a Canadian by about 1969 anyway! (Vietnam)
The way I see it!
