I was there for it with Iraq in the early 00s. The worst isn’t the ones who memory hole it but the ones who will wait until the narrative has definitely turned and there’s no risk of being on The Wrong Side
Then they’ll come out and assure you that they always thought that way, that they were always saying it was wrong to engage in the war and that peace was the way to go. They’ll try to gaslight everyone, themselves most of all
The Irving family is an incredibly rich family that essentially runs New Brunswick as a personal medieval fiefdom. Every gas station and most of the province is owned and operated by them
Coincidentally, there’s a mysterious degenerative brain disease found only in New Brunswick, but there’s been a distinct lack of funding for research into it. These two statements are unrelated
For shits and giggles I went to check out his successors as head of the Bundeswehr
It took until 1986 for them to get a leader that wasn’t a Nazi
running out of older Soviet era chassis
It struck me recently that what’s implied by the use of “Soviet era” and the reality are two different things
Like even though the USSR collapsed in 1991, I feel that the use of “Soviet era” always implies to people some out of date clunky 1960s tech, and fails to properly contextualize that basically everything the west has sent to Ukraine has also been “Soviet era”. The M1 Abrams, Leopard 1, the F-16, all of these are 1960s-1980s, they’re as old as the “Soviet era” stuff. Hell most countries haven’t adopted anything new since the early 2000s
It would be like calling US equipment “Gulf War era” or something, it’s fucking meaningless
Over/under on this being the US’ handiwork?
To make matters worse, the province this comes from, New Brunswick, is essentially a feudal state owned by one family, the Irvings. They own the gas stations, media outlets, and just about everything else in that province
Wouldn’t be surprised if they were the ones pushing to cover this
Not going to happen unfortunately, libs are way too high on their slava ukraini to ever change
What’s gonna happen is they’ll watch the Republicans pivot, they’ll make memes about how Putin is so weak he couldn’t keep buying out the GOP, then grudgingly admit Trump did a good thing, just like they did when he ordered a massive missile strike on Syria