We Are Makers of History Podcast

Using him as missile-bait was the only ethical option available

I found while reading a commendable, but interminably dry history of Yugoslavia recently that if i consciously focused I had a voice in my head and took in more, compared to reading more passively without the voice, but would have to re-read sections. Maybe connected with how closely you focus.

I watched way too much of that thinking it was a cross-over parody

Albania is on the DLC roadmap, third-rate junk is on the way.

You can get a couple of divisions built around technicals, they just happen to be American.

Haven’t we had 3 different variants of the off-side rule over the last 10 years?

Naval aviation badge of ‘Sundowners’ squadron, showing two F4F Wildcats shooting down a setting sun

There’s even cool precedent for that, Naval air squadrons calling themselves ‘Sundowners’ as an appropriation of the Japanese Rising Sun - reusing The enemy’s symbol in your own context. Very much not the same as Sieg runes and totenkopfs

Buddy Holly could never have written Temporary Secretary

Such an epidemic of unbombed Walmarts these days

Accurate depiction of a Greek winning WWI

The Omen

Particularly like the lucky bounce that prevented throwing guy from immolating his comrade

Feels like a metaphor there

Under credible threat of violent death for failing to provide a public service though!

There’s a reason everyone loved The Witcher when we thought it was monster-of-the-week, and hated it when it did ‘aha, tricked you, its actually sub-Game of Thrones’

The ’demoralised to death’ theory made me think of the Tainos after the arrival of the Spanish, and how their entire world was swept away on a tide of irresistible violence - the accounts if their end have a lot of that feeling

Which is terrible, because the Estonian roundel looks great and needs to be used more

That would be an ecumenical matter

‘Does it work for them?’
‘No, the anti-democratic party always uses the delegitimised elections to seize power and kill the opposition. But it might work for us’

That is transparently an image of Zeus

Sticking a pin in this, cause I expect this comment will be useful to pull out in the medium term

Unless he’s a Continuity IRA-man, in which case he’s running for the presidency of a republic that he considers illegitimate

An MMA fighter triggering a second civil war over who is considered a founding father would be a great bit though

The Northumbrians are nothing but a Trojan horse for Dane extremism, send them all back where they came from

He’s not even a real hamster

Assassinating opposing government figures famously de-escalates situations and leads to the opposed government backing down… wait, I’m just getting an update from Sarajevo

American stumbling stones

Being anti-British in ways that would unequivocally be called racist in any other context has become weirdly accepted in US online circles - probably some mix of re-examining empire (in a very 2D, over-corrected way) and the reputational damage of being TERF island

Of the enemies that the Western Allies fought, the one who really got a negotiated peace was Italy, which interestingly probably had the least survival of the wartime regime into the Cold War - the monarchy went, no-one wanted to hear Italy’s expertise on fighting the Soviets

The Firebrand is almost an attractive aircraft, apart from being terrible