To put it in a very venal metaphor: Canada apologizing for doing it again is just like my father's father apologizing to him and my grandmother every time he got drunk and hit them - only to do it again.
Glad to see you also made this distinction. Still, it saddens me when I see victims of propaganda siding with their oppressors - and a lot of them are so deep in denial they simply do not accept any contrarian facts... but I digress.
However, to a point, I think the elites have started to believe their own propaganda.
This kind of mental gymnastics and denial reminds me of the Bloggs couple from the movie When The Wind Blows.
I'm about to marry one. At least he doesn't lean to the right, even if he has some awful misconceptions about great many things.
I didn't quite mean selling, but learning how to make what we need in-house without relying on others - something DPRK and Iran did. Iran specially has developed a tank named Zulfiqar that's a lot like the EE-T1.
But you're right; we'd need a socialist government for any such events to develop. And for closer ties with the rest of the South.
There is a documentary named "Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seul", about the DPRK "defectors" that regretted their decisions. It was on youtube last year, but I do not know if it is still there.
It is useful to pretend to be one of them - or at least an "initiate" in their ways.
If they shun you, then they risk looking like they'll be driving people "to the enemy." If they try to explain, they'll sooner or later admit to being bullshitting.
A better one would be “there’s no proof of that, they weren’t, but don’t try and derail the conversation, stay on topic.”
Their most probable answer would be "ooooh, are you trying to deny it?"
In this case, pretend to be a noob with your views akin to theirs. Say something like "fuck no, but I need some proof to smeat at my redfash friend/coworker/whatever's face!"
And watch them try to produce it.
No wonder the gringos did all they could to sabotage Engesa. Nowadays, it'd likely work better - if they had a partnership with another bigger power like Pakistan or India did with China and Russia, respectively. Or a government that's actually interested in self-preservation like the DPRK or Iran.
EE-T1 Osório would still be a decent tank nowadays, judging by the data. It feels like one of these T-64 and T-72 mixed with Western tanks (usually M60 and Leopard 2) derivates that Iran and China made in the 90s and 2000s
Short answer: entire year unemployed, then working in healthcare delivering things to folks that had even less than I have.
Brazilian armed forces have Leopard 1s. It's the love of our tank units.
Yet, I recall when they compared to the Venezuelan T-72s, they have lower mobility, higher maintenance costs, smaller calibre guns, and a ridiculously short reach for a tank.
Skyrim? Morrowind? Bioshock? Fallout 3?
Sometimes, I think conservatives don't even know what they themselves stand for.
If (1) were true and Russia would only retaliate against Estonia that Estonia would be stupid enough to sacrifice itself for the rest of NATO? After watching what Russia has done to Ukraine? I know libs are oblibious, but…
To be fair, a lot of US and NATO military commanders are pissed that the Ukrainians are "afraid of casualties." So it wouldn't be a surprise if the yankees didn't genuinely believe the Estonians would be willing to die for NATO.
I dunno why, but makes me think it's what'd happen if an AK-103 and a M4A1 had a child - at least in looks.
History of the Military Aviation of China
Military Watch Magazine's article on Beijing's Aviation Museum
Balanço de 2 meses do governo Lula
Professor comunista João Pitílio faz o balanço e crítica dos dois meses do governo Lula em live. Vale a pena ver, apesar de longo.
Texto sobre o papel histórico de Stalin!
Um espaço dedicado à visão pela esquerda dos acontecimentos atuais no Brasil e no mundo.
A question on Western "aid" to Ukraine.
I'll keep it short and simple: one thing that I was discussing with my fiance, about the hostilities in Ukraine, is that, apparently, Western nations are refraining from sending more modern weapons to help Kiev's regime precisely because they're aware the Russians would capture them and, soon enough, there'd be both counter-measures for those plus suspiciously similar designs appearing in Russia and, mayhaps, China.
Or would that be too difficult to happen? What are your thoughts?