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I know he's from texas so I wonder if he watches college football?
So basicaly the US army always seems to have very low casulties compared to their opponets.
And I know that they ussualy fight against random third world people that are poorly traned, have no armor, old rifles, low on ammunition and no artilery or armored vehicles to support them while the US army has the latest military technology, great training and lots of ammunition, missiles and artilery shells to waste as well as the largest air force.
So I saw a post on about Korean war saying for the US military that
"those who die in a hospital are not considered dead, and those who do not have a body are not considered dead (even if they are seen dead). The American army left thousands of bodies on Chosin Lake, which are still missing"
and that
"After Trump's assassination of Soleimani, Iran cleaned out American bases in the Middle East with rockets. The US army claimed that there were no deaths, just over 200 concussions, and that the number of suicides in the US Army that year was unusually high by several hundred.Similarly, in the war in Afghanistan, the US officially declared fewer deaths in the field than those caused by equipment abnormalities"
I have tried searching things up about US army concealing their casulties, but am unable to find anything.
I have also heard the argument that the US military isnt concealing war casulties because they make memorials for their fallen soldiers in specific wars and write their names on them so people would quickly find out if a name of someone they knew wasnt on the memorial.
Hakim also said in one of Deprogram episodes that US was lying about their casulties in Iraq and that WikiLeaks had a leaked document that proved that, but I wasnt able to find anything about that as well.
Anyone knows anything about any of this stuff??
Edit: The subreddit I mentioned in the post seems to not appear in text.
I would specifically recommend The Autobiography of Malcolm X & Revolutionary Suicide to all my American comrades.
I have heard especially good things of Domenico Losurdo, specifically his books on Liberalism and Stalin.
Other than core theory, what would you recommend?
So many marginalized people caved under the pressure of liberal fearmongering, and all they can do now is dread some kind of non-existent apocalypse when in reality not much will change and the struggle will continue the same way as it was before. Liberalism poisons and debilitates the people and I can't help but feel indignant about this whole situation. And it's hard to comfort others using revolutionary optimism when the system made sure to beat the hopeful spark out of all the people under it. God, when will the american empire finally perish?
"they were just as bad" uh huh, for sure man.
(Like don't get me wrong there were definitely messed up things the USSR did there and elsewhere, which, you know, are not ideal to say the least, but the chuds' attempt at drawing equivalency is disgusting)
They're so heavily ingrained in American culture that, in many cases, people don't even seem to stop and think about them.
When people do stop and think about them, they seem to sometimes come to conclusions (e.g. creating a new personal definition "success") that seem to not quite be correct.
These ideas are heavily ingrained in business, self-help, school, and conversations about life. People have even created ideas like "financial success" and "successful relationships", and "success" is commonly associated with one's career or where one is at in life (e.g. a thirty year old guy living in his mom's basement or a person who is married with 2.5 kids, a car, a single family house in the suburbs, and a white picket fence).
People with a lot of fame, a lot of career accomplishments, or a high net worth are viewed as incredibly successful, while a person working minimum wage at McDonald's is viewed as unsuccessful.
People are expected and pushed to be ambitious, and being unambitious is frowned upon (not that rolling around aimlessly like a sack of manure or being prideless is good).
People who rank high in a hierarchy or who have a high social position are often viewed as "winners" and "successful", especially if they're perceived to have done so on their own and aren't perceived to be a nepo baby. People who rank low in a hierarchy or who have a low social position are often viewed as "losers" or "unsuccessful", except when starting out in life.
People are often labeled as "failures", "losers", "winners", or "successful".
Just seen footage of the HTS beheading an SAA captive as well as another video of them shooting other SAA soldiers that surrendered. This is 2012-2014 Syria going full circle. Of course sponsored by you know who.. 😒