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I feel like there's an excellent set-up to a joke somewhere in there.

Yep. I started to suspect this in 2016 when Bob Dylan, of all people, was given the Nobel Prize for literature.

Libs and class traitors still exist in China

Sad, but unavoidable in any society. Even the United States, with its carceral state and extensive propaganda system, still has a fair amount of dissenters from the state ideology.

but are more likely to get physically punished

Unfathomably based.

"Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace"

A reddit death cult.

A lot of US propaganda in World War II was actually not at a much higher intellectual level. In particular, the whole "victory girls" thing (inspiring the troops with porn and prostitution, basically), has often struck me as an instance of proto-reddit mind.

why since last month people are sprouting up saying the SS weren’t Nazis?

Is this seriously a thing? (Not that I'd be surprised, unfortunately). I've heard lots of people try to exonerate the Wermacht, but the Clean SS argument is a new low.

Yep, that's exactly what the official narrative on Vietnam is. It's ironic, because "lack of support" in historical context means "the US public stopped being keen on the war once they realized that they, or their sons, husbands, boyfriends, etc., could be sent to die halfway across the world." Isn't agitating for your own interests what people are supposed to do in a liberal democracy, at least in theory and according to the propaganda?

seething anger from Vietnam

Except this time I hope the veterans actually get spit on.

Like a true loser the US and UK will make it seem like they left of their own accord.

If Vietnam is any indication, they will pretend they left of their own accord, but will also perpetrate a stab-in-the back myth: "those damn tankies and Russia dupes sold out America and our Ukrainian allies!" Eventually, the war will be impossible to discuss, because the only accepted narrative will be that we won and lost at the same time.

Doublethink, one might even call it.

I remember Bernie Sanders (!) pointing this out during the 2016 election. The specific example he used was the military paying almost a thousand bucks for a part you can get at most hardware stores for $1.50. People seemed kind of upset, but nobody bothered to contradict him.

Wars there were always waged in summer

The first book of Sienkiewicz's trilogy suddenly makes a lot more sense.

Hey, there was at least one good use of it.

"Yeah, I believe in market reforms, but..."

Like that time the US was criticizing China for supposedly using slave labor to pick cotton in Xinjiang. I think more than one Chinese official noted the irony.

Yep, biggest military budget in the world doesn't help you if you don't have factories to make stuff. A bit like that ancient Greek story about the king who locked a rich man in a room with all his gold and told him to eat it.

Apparently a big chunk of that 877 billion dollar budget goes toward vanity projects and lining the pockets of generals and business execs.

Sadly, we're kinda experts on Nazism.

This did not help whatever point they were trying to make.

Can USA equip them all tho?

I would seriously doubt it. Our production and supply chains are a mess; when we "went into" (i.e., invaded) Syria, the air force had to cannabalize musuem planes for parts we couldn't make. The US Navy has about half of its planes inoperative, including two thirds of its strike aircraft. Soldiers have been complaining for the past twenty years about being given old guns, repaired with worn-out parts that jam. And if we can't compete with Russian shell and tank production now, in a proxy war, there's no way we'll be able to do it in an actual state-to-state conflict.

One of the dumbest bits of reddit analysis I ever saw was in one of those self-professed "contrarian" subs, under a picture of Azov delagates in Washington: "We should be really worried about Russia, because the RF is objectively much closer to fascism than Ukrainian nationalists cosplaying their favorite 20th century anti-Semites are."

This might have been funny if it was satire, but I assure you the poster was completely in earnest.

while Putin may have added more elements of planning and protectionism

And that was as a concession to reality, basically -- free market doctrine simply doesn't work, for anybody except Wall Street and US arms dealers, and Putin was smart enough to see this. ("Reality," said Kim Jong-Il about the future path of Russia, "is a harsh judge," and time has proved him right).