Not really an excuse but you have to remember at that time we were at the height of the Cold War, we had the “red scare” and McCarthyism. “Commies” were thought of as an existential threat
“Commies” were thought of as an existential threat
No. The post-WW2 “red scare” was pretty much just a pretext to wage war on the 3rd world - the real red-and-black scare happened after WW1 (that’s where the fetishization of “border security” and the obsessive policing of nationality stems from).
That’s what the (so-called) “Cold War” was really all about - the US violently replacing the old European powers as the world’s foremost colonialist empire. And it sure as hell managed to rack up the bodycount to prove it.
No, it isn’t. It doesn’t require imagination at all. If you want something that requires a crap-ton of imagination, go see the narratives the US has been spinning about the (so-called) “Cold War” - you have to be pretty high on “westernism” to buy any of it.
it sort of does, after all pre WW2 there weren’t two massive “communist” states (let’s be honest they were as communist as Germany during WW2) that had a tendency to try and expand via military means
The expansionism of the USSR and the PRC, while certainly extant, is still kindergarten stuff in comparison with even the earliest of the European colonialist empires - never mind the utterly psychotic control-fetish with nukes that is the US.
Not really an excuse but you have to remember at that time we were at the height of the Cold War, we had the “red scare” and McCarthyism. “Commies” were thought of as an existential threat
No. The post-WW2 “red scare” was pretty much just a pretext to wage war on the 3rd world - the real red-and-black scare happened after WW1 (that’s where the fetishization of “border security” and the obsessive policing of nationality stems from).
That’s what the (so-called) “Cold War” was really all about - the US violently replacing the old European powers as the world’s foremost colonialist empire. And it sure as hell managed to rack up the bodycount to prove it.
That’s quite an imaginative perspective
No, it isn’t. It doesn’t require imagination at all. If you want something that requires a crap-ton of imagination, go see the narratives the US has been spinning about the (so-called) “Cold War” - you have to be pretty high on “westernism” to buy any of it.
it sort of does, after all pre WW2 there weren’t two massive “communist” states (let’s be honest they were as communist as Germany during WW2) that had a tendency to try and expand via military means
The expansionism of the USSR and the PRC, while certainly extant, is still kindergarten stuff in comparison with even the earliest of the European colonialist empires - never mind the utterly psychotic control-fetish with nukes that is the US.
damn, to literally see: Britain did it worse and “we need more world ending weapons”
tell me how does the “anti-imperialist” imperial boot taste, tankie?
Oh, look… the bootlickers are projecting.
Yawn.
licking the boot of… checks list: not having genocidal authoritarian regimes with nukes