Ken Burns is in your future

[aqarius@lemmy.world]

Is there also a buff blonde dude with a sword in a fur loincloth?

[agent641@lemmy.world]

Vietnam got a rough fucking deal in the 1900s. Shortly after the US left, the Cambodians under Pol Pot invaded, and they were brutal

[gmtom@lemmy.world]

Are you dumb?

[gmtom@lemmy.world]

Hey, the Falklands is the one I’m obsessed with and it’s actually really interesting. Only “modern” war between near peers before ukraine.

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

Iran Iraq war also known as first gulf war?

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

China also invaded.

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

Buying, selling, using, abusing, growing, extracting, synthesizing, losing, hiding, educating, discarding, withdrawing, etc.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

Near peers? Pretty sure there’s a whole ocean separating Argentina and Britain, even if the islands where the conflict occurred were “just next door” to mainland Argentina.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

My case was Paraguay War a few weeks ago and I learned so damn much that school completely glossed over. What surprised me the most was just how much of a madman Solano Lopez, the Paraguayan dictator, was. You dare bring bad news to him? You bet your ass you’ll be flogged. You failed to follow one of his suicidal orders? Off to forced labor camp. You didn’t put him above God and Christ? Say your prayers, you’ll be shot bayoneted in order to save bullets.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

Wut

The Iraqi army got absolutely obliterated

[lime@feddit.nu]

i got the soviet-afghan war and wow did that recontextualize a lot of things about the modern world

[loonsun@sh.itjust.works]

Such as?

[oduffer@lemmy.world]

I think so, it’s all a haze.

[chickenladyloveslife@lemmy.world]

I think they meant “near” as in “evenly matched”.

[lime@feddit.nu]

bear in mind i was 10 during 9/11 so a lot of it was just upending things i had taken for granted. but like, how the US was pretty much allied with the taliban throughout the 80s, giving them training and weapons to fight against the soviet-friendly progressive, secular government of afghanistan.

[ours@lemmy.world]

And Vietnam ended up kicking Pol Pot off which is impossible to argue as anything but a win for humanity.

[ours@lemmy.world]

But it’s the Disney sequel trilogy.

[ours@lemmy.world]

I’ve worked briefly with civil defense stuff and got to visit and learn a whole bunch about bunkers. That cemented my “take out the long chair, open my best bottle, put on some shades, and enjoy the brief light show” approach to a hypothetical nuclear alert.

[kalpol@lemmy.world]

I’m sure you’ve come across it but David Hart Dyke’s book on the loss of HMS Coventry is one of the more vivid depictions of grief I’ve read.

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War

That’s not the US led UN backed war following Iraq‘s invasion of Kuwait. Iran and Iraq had a long and brutal war with tanks, planes, helicopters, mines, trenches, and more in the 1980s.