English language translations of Russian mat-heavy slang always makes me chuckle.
The people you find in leadership in these places typically are never good guys
The US media did not want to lose in Vietnam, they were the biggest cheerleaders and stenographers of the bullshit that the US Military was putting out, its only towards 1967-1968 that they started getting very cynical about the whole thing which started grinding the gears of hyper patriots like Walter Cronkite who fully believed the US government's statements on the war. Only when Tet kicked off did Cronkite decide that he couldn't just print what the government was saying and went to check out the country himself, quickly he found that the US government was full of shit and that the North Vietnamese position was actually ascendant rather than falling apart, completely contrary to his outlook on the war because he believed the US Generals. Going to Hue during the heaviest combat phase and seeing the total destruction of one of the most well preserved medieval cities in the world was enough to break his naive outlook, the US may have won all tactical victories but it certainly was not winning the strategic war since each offensive was leveling South Vietnamese cities.
If only they'd let us use the nukes like we did with the nips!
My wife was just trying to tell me something her father told her in regards to an important appointment we have coming up. In trying to take it from Russian she said "you should shit more than you need to.... Umm... Basically you should be better prepared rather than less prepared".English language translations of Russian mat-heavy slang always makes me chuckle.
"Got a dick in the face and fucked back to the pigsty, and they ended up sucking dick like everytime"
You really can't translate Russian into any other language, it loses a bit of its soul when you do.
I think the most hilarious part about the end of the Vietnam war was that as soon as the gooks kicked us out, they kicked the chinks out as well.
Tet, the offensive that achieved nothing and destroyed the Viet Kong as a fighting force? That Tet?
Let me guess, the Paris Peace Accords, Vietnamization, Nixon winning more than 40 states in '72, and Congress zeroing out the south's military support budget are "boomer cope" too, not things that actually happened that don't get remarked on because they massively recontextualize the fall of the south and our role in it.
Uh like, have you seen how many ships and planes and tanks the US had? If they had just taken all of those and put them in south vietnam then they could've steamrolled the north! It was just those dang dirty hippies that kept it from happening.......... What do you mean the USA had obligations outside of SE asia?!?!?!
Viet Kong =/= North Vietnam
Lmao here we go with the boomer revisionist. Guess what.
Me: "the US lost Vietnam because of the perfidiousness of our ruling class and media (BIRM.)"
The only perfidiousness in the Vietnam War by the ruling class and media was allowing the US to enter the conflict to begin with in the first place. Had Anti-War protests not been so intense -- to the point that there was an increasing fear of revolution, or civic break down, as the amount of bombing, assassinations, and general discord was escalating rapidly; the US would still be dawdling around with a few tiny pockets we'd claim were the sovereign government of South Vietnam, little more than what was directly visible.
I think another thing I find interesting about this is how the US defeat in Afghanistan was really worse than it was in Vietnam in a great many ways. This in spite of the fact that the Taliban didn't really have any tech or resources better than the Viet Cong, but US tech and resources certainly got better since Vietnam. Likewise, the overall situation was far more favorable to the Viet Cong for the most part than it was with the Taliban with other major powers putting their fingers on the scale in favor of the Viet Cong.
Sometimes when I don't feel like taking the time to read everything or I do and just don't get it I'll use a translation app and the result is fucking hilarious, despite often not even translating correctly. Even when Russians speak perfect English it sort of creeps in, like when I once asked "How goes it?" the reply is "Terrible. Everything is pizdec". I don't think they grasp how hilarious, and cute it is because they think we're laughing at their language skills (we're not). Really spices up a convo.
The issue isn't whether we won or lost in Southeast Asia (we did), the issue is how the American people get conned into supporting military actions under the guise of national security, because it threatens us directly and end up paying for it with, often with their lives or their children's lives. None of the military actions the US engaged in during the last sixty years, from Korea to Vietnam to Iran, to Lebanon to Grenada to Central America to Africa to Iraq and Afghanistan and now Eastern Europe/Ukraine were to the benefit of the American people as a whole. These actions only benefit the MIC and our grifting politicians, as well as the desire of America to be an Empire. It's distasteful to come out and say so it's cloaked in anti-Communism or pro-Democracy (although some openly declare their love of American Hegemony, as if using big words hides what it really is).
>Reverse engineer a UFO
Which will happen first Zaporozhye Powerplant blows up or Ukie counter offensive make your choice and believe in 2 more weeks. In seriousness though this would be somewhat concerning had they not gone and been like "Its gonna blow" 20 times already
