zerfuffle

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

It's telling that the Allies only opened the Western Front after the Soviets had thoroughly defeated the Germans multiple times and were at a real risk of reaching Berlin and then sweeping past it.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Operation Barbarossa had stalled by the time the US entered the war. German logistics were overextended, they were out of oil, and they were against a larger, rapidly industrializing power defending their homeland.

By the time D-Day rolled around, Army Group North and Army Group South were taking loss after loss and the USSR had reclaimed a significant chunk of the land lost during Barbarossa. The Germans were in collapse. Roosevelt had promised a second front in 1942 but couldn't deliver until 1944 (when it was clear that the Soviets had a clear shot at Berlin and had the momentum to keep going).

The Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive put Army Group Center in an increasingly precarious position even as Russia continually gained ground in Byelorussia.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Prior to Pearl Harbour, the US funded the Japanese as the Japanese committed countless war crimes and genocide in China.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

China will be happy to replace coal with oil and gas. Net positive either way, I think.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Considering Israel's dropped like about 1000 bombs a day in this conflict so far... You're free to work back to figure out how many munitions Israel has sent at Gaza, and you're also free to propose how Gaza got access to so many explosives despite being completely blockaded.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

So Egypt has intelligence, but Israel doesn't, but also Israel does now? Interesting how the IDF only seems to have intelligence when it's convenient for your narrative.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah yes, because the same American media that claimed that "40 babies were beheaded" and "Shani Louk is naked and dead" and " Russia bombed this Ukrainian market" and "India landed right on the South Pole" is so reliable and unbiased. In some of these cases, we're not talking about distorting facts into some false reality. We're literally talking about making shit up that's trivial to disprove.

American journalism fucking sucks. They're incapable of identifying a multi-pulse rocket engine flight trail, despite having had almost two years of Stinger MANPADS usage in Ukraine. They're incapable of basic background research and completely incapable of considering alternative options. They'll gobble up the Israeli "audio of Hamas" despite having nobody who speaks Arabic on the media team (because everyone who does already got put on mandatory leave) and won't consider how the IDF clearly has no intelligence in Hamas given that Hamas was able to amass an attack with thousands of people without any leakage.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean, yeah? Each Hamas rocket has like 50 pounds of explosive filler and an unexploded Israeli bomb has up to 2000 pounds.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

No way, Muslims are biased towards Muslims?

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

This reporting isn't on Qatar.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Al Jazeera has the shocking bias of valuing the lives of Muslims

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Two dozen in a short video where the guy just spins in a circle in a panic. Let's not pretend like the guy walked around the entire premises.

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